'Memory is the only paradise'

Volume 20 of the Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography is devoted to a special collection of family photogra[hs. Based on these, Claartje Wesselink tells the tragic story of the Jewish Wachenheimer family.00Since the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013, a striped concentration camp jacket hangs in the Twentieth Century room. Below this a photograph album is displayed which is opened at a different page every few months. The jacket belonged to Isabel Wachenheimer (1928-2010) who was the only one of her immediate Germen-Jewish family to survive the Shoah.00Claartje Wesselink (1980) is a lecturer and guest researcher of cultural history at Amsterdam University and a historian on the Netherlands Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War.About the series:0The Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund, which is managed by the Rijksmuseum Fund, was established in 2003 to enable young researchers to study photography and publish their findings in the 'Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography' series.