"On the Threshold of Oblivion" by Samuel Shats. Part I

Engineer by profession, photographer by vocation. His prolific career has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions.
In this work he invites us to reflect on memory, death, tolerance, old age and life built under the shadow of the past.

Only child of elderly parents. After the "Night of Broken Glass" the family business is closed and they must leave their home. When the war breaks out, her departure from Genoa is finally complicated. In Chile she meets her husband with whom she has three children.

A peaceful childhood until the Germans invaded. In 1943 he´s transported to Birkenau where he got tattooed with the number 120693. At the approach of the Red Army he takes part in the "Death March". After finding no one in Greece, he emigrates to France and then to Chile in 1951

In 1940 he is taken to Chernovitz under false pretences, where he replaces Russian soldiers. He´s then sent to Vorkutá, where he´s held for four years. On his return he find out that 41 members of his family died in the concentration camps. In '48 he emigrates to Israel and then to Chile.

In '38 she and her family were taken to Auschwitz, where she was tattooed with the number A10639. After a few months, those who had Nr. were transferred to Libob. The rest were not spared.
With the arrival of the Russians she and her sister where liberated, the rest of the family did not survive. She marries and the 56th emigrates to Chile.

After the invasion of Romania the Rothfeld family emigrates to Chile in '39.
The Herda's were doing well until the Russian occupation in 1940-41. Her father decides that it is better for her to escape. She arrives in Chile with the help of Mr. Rothfeld and later marries Hugo Rothfeld.