View from Yad Vashem (study)
30cm x 40cm, oil on Linen.
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This was my first Yom HaShoah since making aliyah. I vividly remember the first time I went through the Yad VaShem museum, the National Holocaust museum here in Israel. In a way it was the first time I had confronted my relationship to the Holocaust. Growing up without grandparents who survived the camps (mine had already fled to America 50 years before) I felt as though the story of the Shoah was not my story. What I was struck by during my time in the museum was that every face looked like someone I was related too. I also looked up my last name to see if we had family who were murdered. I understood for the first time how connected all Jews are to the events of the Shoah, and how it’s shaped us.
Coming out the other side and seeing the view of the Jerusalem hills was seared into my memory. This image that stuck with me was that rebuilding is possible and that’s what the last 75 years has shown here in Israel and in the diaspora.
Am Yisrael Chai עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱
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