500 Faces

"The face is what forbids us to kill*". Emmanuel LevinasOn the next page are presented the individual faces of the young girls. Most of them studied a few years in the Gymnasium Yavne between 1923 and 1940, some completed the eight years of the school, others dropped after six or seven years. Sources of the photographs : Personal collections of the survivors, amoung these a number have been published in the Sefer Telz; class and group photographs; identity photographs from the recently discovered collection of school diplomas of the Yavne schools in the Lithuanian Central Archives in Vilnius; and rare photographs from the album of the local photographer Chaimas Kaplanskis, Vilniaus daliès akademijos leidykla, 2007, Telsiai-Vilnius.* See many quotations of Levinas about this topic in Bruce Young: Emmanuel Levinas and "the face of the Other" CLICK TO ACCESS THE PORTRAIT GALLERY: Le visage est ce qui nous interdit de tuer