44 DEGREES The online art magazine - presents special edition - 'MEMORY'.

ABOUT THE MAGAZINE

The 44 DEGREES is an online magazine and dedicated to promoting Israeli artists.

The magazine deals with the field of contemporary art.

Present digital media artists, painters, sculptors and curators.

Each magazine will discuss a different Issue.

To contact each artist, click on his site, or write to his email.  The issue of the magazine – Memory Dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust .

Presents an impressive body of work of contemporary Israeli artists.

How contemporary art deals with the difficult subject as the Holocaust.

I have decided to deal with this issue, so no one will forget the horrors.

Not everyone can speak loudly about the horrors of the Holocaust.

Few artists of the second generation, the contemporary artists bring different perspectives. Some of them grew up in houses of Holocaust survivors.

6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

The 44 DEGREES online Magazine is founded by TAMMY MIKE LAUFER 2013

The official website of the magazine: http://art-magazine.wix.com/44degrees

Drawing on the front of the magazine, Logo and design by Tammy Mike Laufer

Participants 1

SHARON FIDEL

15

AMIT IZACK

2

CHAVA EPSTEIN

16

ZEEVA KONAS (KIRSHNER)

3

LEA WEINBERG

17

IRIT SCHILO

4

RINA LEVITT

18

TZVI NADAV ROSLER

5

AVIVA BEIGEL

19

RONIT BACHAR SHACHAR

6

ELDAD PNINI

20

MARY KUSHILEVICH

7

TAMMY MIKE LAUFER

21

LEA PILZER-EFRAT

8

JULIA KOSTIKOV

22

MEGI ROME

9

ELAD DAVID

23

JASMIN GERSHONY- GEYER

10

GIL ZABLODOVSKY

24

LEAH HARPAZ

11

JOZSEF RAZ

25

YOEL GILINSKY

12

KEREN BIRMAN

26

CHAVA POLIVODA

13

SARITH HAAS

27

YAFIT NOMBERG

14

AMIR LAVON

28

SIGAL MAGEN

• SHARON FIDEL The Holocaust has always intrigued me. I would call it even as addiction issue.

Addiction to pain.

As an artist, I express my life and what I see in various materials from daily life.

After years of interest in the Holocaust, I "crush" on the icon of Hitler.

I have the ability to have fun with the icon and make it a character that can not hurt anyone.

I'm stronger than him.

I do what I want with him, I create him again, like a whale comes from the sky, with beads and graphite as was Mickey Mouse. sfidel@gmail.com

http://sharonfidel.wix.com/art

• CHAVA EPSTEIN My sculptures which deal with the holocaust tells my father's family story which spread in the world because of the war and part of them were murdered by the Nazis. chavaep@gmail.com

• LEA WEINBERG As Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors and an artist, I feel it is my obligation to present a visual message preserving the stories I have personally heard, the idea was in my heart, but since my mother passed away it became my goal.

My current project “Mother- Survivor” - a woman’s Personal Story intertwined with the tragedy of Human History. My mother’s Holocaust journey is expressed through a contemporary wire mesh sculpture installation (six series of works) My semi- abstract sculptures and reliefs portray a motif of Togetherness.

Wire mesh figures entwined together swirling like wisps of smoke, express close connections of inseparable people who found themselves in a space they could not escape from, and Survivors holding onto present life hoping for a better future. I tear wire mesh as a symbol to “Kriah” (tearing in Hebrew, the act of tearing one’s clothes as an expression of grief) and as a reminder to the families that were torn apart Universal Chimney (upper part) Size: 82.5x45x45 cm, 33x18x18 inch Medium: wire mesh, powder coat, paint, glue, metal found object.

Memories in the Air One size: 57.5x27.5x22.5cm, 23x10x9 inch Memories in the Air Two size: 60x35x20 cm, 24x14x8 inch Medium: wire mesh, powder coat, glue, paint, steel wires Memories in the Air semi-transparent wire mesh reliefs describing semi abstract human shells. Silver, white and grey figures, accompanied by their shadows are giving a feeling of lightness, clouds, smoke or spirits appearing and disappearing in the air. We are surrounded by unforgettable memories from the past. We will never forget! leaweinberg@gmail.com http://www.leaw-sculptor.com

• RINA LEVITT The Shoah represents all the worst that humans have in them. Oppressors merge with evil forces; they fear one another, while doing terrible things to others for their own survival.

But it also brings out a lot of positive unexpected behavior of togetherness, of will power for survival, for help & love.

The above is illustrated in my works as described further.

Stripping people of the layers of their individuality, leave them bare & vulnerable, losing hope of survival.

People contain their life in well-defined boundaries. When outside forces claw into their life, taking away their freedom, it makes their spirit shrink away.

There is still hope. Togetherness is essential for holding on to life.

My technique: For creating my ceramic sculptures, I developed a technique which I named “Ceramic Carving”. On the Potter’s Wheel, I create pots of different size & shape, all with thick walls & base. Some I put together, some I leave on their own; some I add clay to the sides. When the clay is “Leather Hard”, I carve clay away to create the final sculpture, in a “go with the flow” manner. I have a strict rule by which I can only take clay away, never add (just like carving wood or stone). This approach gives me a feeling of adventure, essential for creativity.

rina@levitt.net http://www.israel-ceramics.org/en/members/rina-levitt

http://www.printmaking.co.il/catalog.php?id=68

• AVIVA BEIGEL “Nowhere Land" It is hard to understand or discuss about the Holocaust, it is even harder to make Art connected to it.

In a visit to Berlin in 2007, I came across a booklet of comics and I was surprised to see it deals with this subject.

At first it made me angry…

Looking further in it, I was encouraged to create my own interpretation, and it became the inspiration to a series of works in the name NOWHERE LAND. I have used the comics as a starting point to my works, even though usually it is connected to a light, cool and contemporary style.

In my works it combines with expressive painting, this makes the difference.

The direct connection between a picture and text as appears in the comics gave me legitimization to use the written word as additional picturesque element, and enables me to summarize and to strengthen the idea behind my creations.

Beigel198@gmail.com

www.avivabeigel.com

• ELDAD PNINI My style is a photography and digital art.

Camera for me is a painting brush.

Holocaust issue is very close to my heart, always read and been interested in the Holocaust.

I created a number of images on the Holocaust and Human The important issue for me is whether I would survive the Holocaust.

So I created a number of images that touch on the Holocaust and Human. eldad_p@me.com

• TAMMY MIKE LAUFER These works, made from a personal need to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. My grandmother from my mother's side, has lost most of her family in the Holocaust.

My works are similar to mental puzzles, where you can travel from one point to another by analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. there is always something for the observer to discover.

I never force my vision or push my philosophical opinion on the viewers each and every one, can give theirs philosophy to my creation.

My art is surreal reality, all in my head. The viewer take a journey to places just as real as those you might find in this reality.

When I start working on a new scene, it's like enter to a fantasy dream. like starting your new only virtual world. “Everything is possible” and in the majority of my works I am trying to combine visual realities, with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts.

I create my virtual world, with 3d software and 2d paint software. Using combinations of renderings, lightings, textures and shapes. www.Tammymikelaufer.com tamylauf@netvision.net.il

• JULIA KOSTIKOV A lot of memories is lost by now, while visual statements are here to stay.

A visual statement that tells you about the missing love that won't come and sit on the family couch with his wife. About the years that have passed since May 1942. About the scattered dreams of young lovers and children who fell on the ground; they fell and there was no one around to help them get up and rise.

They all will rise in our memories, just let them. Their shadows will always come up in different forms. Let the forms exist.

Exist and don't walk on shattered glass; build foundations of your own and cover them with your golden touch and presence. Don't let your dreams get lost in the way when they have the chance to become real.

www.juliak.portfoliobox.net

yulia4321@gmail.com

• ELAD DAVID In my works I deal, not once, in the subject of memory as well as the memory of the holocaust in particular. Although I define myself as a photographer, I choose not to be limited to one medium. Therefore some of my works include text, painting and usage of other media.

My work ‘28|54’ for example deals with my obsessive attempts to perpetuate a mother icon and past memories of my mother that associated with it. The work is accompanied by a personal essay which reveals intimate memories that raises the doubt if they are indeed memories or persistent thoughts that formed into memories.

In this work I also scanned fabrics that belonged to my mother, and by that and other meanings I tried to capture the present and preserve it the way it is.

Other works include portraits that means to emphasize the absence of who is not in the photo, rather than who is.

I believe that to almost every photo there’s a third party, the viewer, which gives to each work its own private interpretation. Thus, whether I approve of it as an artist or not, the viewer becomes part of my work, or any work for that matter. eladdpp@gmail.com www.eladdavid.com

• GIL ZABLODOVSKY when I create I think of how can influence with my work and make people think, for one more second how we can change our lives for the best.

Holocaust it's a way of life to all Israeli citizens, FINGER PRINTS shows us the way to remember and not to forget - like physical finger prints that defines us through our lives, it is there, u don't always notice it, but it's there.

gilzablo@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gil-Zablodovsky-DesignerArtist/473884569318513?ref=hl

• JOZSEF RAZ I am a second generation of Holocaust survivors. My parents did not speak aloud about this subject. Signs of the Holocaust were all over my parents body. They lost all that was dear for them. I belong to the generation that did not know his grandparents and other family.

I deal with the Holocaust for future generations and hope that they will not forget and will not have to face such horrors.

Jozsef Raz a Digital Artist Photographer.

Visual Graphic Design and History of Art graduate .

On the way from the Analog world to the Digital world, I went from using direct contact of the materials such as: Celluloid, Steel, Wood, Glass and Canvas to the Digital world where I collect all the materials for my work using the camera and the scanner.

The computer's mouse is my main tool to draw and scalp my work of art.

My work expresses "searching after the beauty in the ugliness and the ugliness in the beauty" and creates an illusion of the fantasy world jozsefraz@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/jozsef.raz?ref=tn_tnmn

• KEREN BIRMAN Between Body and Soul The complete shattering caused by the Holocaust, the deep between body and soul, the trauma expressing itself. Memories, pain, conflicting feelings vs. desire for reunion. Parallelism of existence– body and soul, memories, longing, family. These photos were taken using Long Exposure Techniques.

Keren.artdesign@gmail.com www.facebook.com/pages/Keren-Birman-Photography/467204863346686

• SARITH HAAS I am a multi-disciplinary artist. In my works, I like to combine sketching and printing techniques, while photography is one of my Favorites.

I was born in Jerusalem, in 1955, as both of my parents were holocaust survivors. Being a second generation to survivors of the hardships that had occurred, I consider this subject as highly influential to my art style and themes.

In my works, I look for traces of my cultural roots, specifically as are derived from old market sceneries.

Two of the works presented were taken in Budapest and the third in Berlin. batshe12@smile.net.il http://www.all-art.co.il/ArtWorks/ArtWorksChapter.asp?StageId=181

• AMIR LAVON Not a hero, a simple man

He is neither a celebrity nor a famous figure He never got anything or asked for something for What he did so we all got the chance to be here alive He lived his life in a small apartment in a noisy street He went to swim till he got old and tired He never liked wars or fights next to him He never said why Not many people knew his story but the Ones that did will tell you that this simple Man fought in the frozen woods, saving others From the devil hands, lost his own on the way Than keep on living for three more years just To see the victory in his own eyes The simple man than crossed lands by foot and In the end of his journey he started A new one again, so he built a new home And brought a new family to the world Now the story of this simple man Became my private story So now I'll change the Title again and say that Not a simple man for me A Hero. amirlavon@hushmail.com

• AMIT IZACK “JU” : is a work that combine an intersection between language and slang.. an introducing an intersection.

NEW MEDIA IMAGES MANIPULATED - PHOTOSHOP http://amitizack.wordpress.com/author/amitizack/ amitizack@gmail.com

• ZEEVA KONAS (KIRSHNER) As a member of a family who survived the Holocaust I decided to create an international traveling exhibition for people to see, remember and learn. My father, the late Abraham Kirschner, was a native of the town Pshemichlane in Ukraine, he went through the Holocaust with all its horrors; the members of his family were taken with the rest of the town's Jews into the nearby forest where they were shot and killed.

When the war came to an end, Kirschner came to Israel, where he spent the rest of his life documenting the horrors he lived through painting and writing.

His cousin-who witnessed the massacre and survived, went to the very same place in which the massacre took place, to build a monument in memory of the victims, and brought me sand from the forest's ground, which I used to make the printings plates. In this project I used techniques of painting, photographic, printing and digital media.

These documentary works cover three generations and was shown in Israel and in Germany and reworded by "Masua" museum. zeeva.konas@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/zeeva.konas

• IRIT SCHILO I am, painter & sculpture.

My work about The Holocaust through puppets, how are myself in it, and my childhood dolls. As I'm second generation to the Holocaust.

Lost my grandmother, her son and more. seize is – 1.00/1.00 m. oil paint. irit2000@netvision.net.il

• TZVI NADAV ROSLER Tzvi Nadav Rosler /by Dorit Rishoni Tzvi Nadav Rosler is 75 years old today, a citizen of Ra'anana He saw his father and friends taken by Belgian soldiers to the dock from which no one returns.

His mother was able to smuggle out him and his sister using a forged contagious disease certificate.

They escaped to a small Belgian village where they managed to live as Christians for three years with help of the village people who hid them.

As a child who had hidden and survived he kept many memories of the war.

Only after many years did these memories take shape in paintings he created. After returning from the war to Antwerp with his mother and sister he began to study graphics at the Academy of Arts in Antwerp. He then spent most of his career in that area.

In three separate painting series Tsvi used memories of the holocaust. "I failed to document my personal holocaust experience in Belgium. That is what I can do now - I am not a writer, I can paint" "The first series is very personal. It shows paintings of those who did not survive the war, among them are his father and grandfather. Some of these paintings can be found at "Yad Vashem".

After painting these portraits I felt I had paid my debt to those who are gone.

Then the second series was born. It presented the holocaust in Europe. The main reason for this series is a sentence Tzvi heard from his mother many times: 'They are setting a trap for us'.

That is why my mom prepared a fake certificate for me and my sister stating that we had a contagious disease; therefore the officers didn't take us in.

They took my father - and fifteen minutes later we ran away.

The preparation of the third series was set off by a German 'trap' that I have found.

The series contains six wooden plates where I express my feelings towards the holocaust.

The wooden plates symbolize the train, and writing on it with yellow fabric symbolizes the yellow patches Jews had to wear. The series also contains a picture of my father. On one of these plates there are photos of children who were taken and never returned. "It bugs me all the time that it was I who should have been in transport Number 7".

Painting my memories from the war only came to me after years of ignoring the subject.

I didn't allow myself to do it because I was one of the 'hidden children'. Our story was not harsh as that of others. We never told our story and we were never treated like the rest of the holocaust survivors.

We have been noticed only recently, which is what made me start my artistic creations.

The third series. For over a year I have been dealing with a series of paintings about my memories as a child in a little village where my mother, my sister and I hid under cover during WW2, from 1942 until the end of the war. It was a small village in the Ardennes near the Meuse River.

This was the French-speaking region of Belgium. At that time there were only 60 families in the village.

Today there are about 160. The village was small and that is what saved us. It was close to the Germans yet they hardly ever came into the village.

I arrived in the village at the age of 5. As a child who grew up in the city I was amazed by the farm animals, the fields and the woods The underground took us under their wing. This included the priest, the town counselor and the school teacher.

The family where we hid was that of the town counselor and we stayed with them till the end of the war.

I was raised as a Christian and I still know the Christian prayers better than the Jewish ones..

The people were kind; nobody said a word about us.

In my paintings you can see that there are barely any windows on the houses.

It took me a while to realize that I did this in response to all the times a car passed - and my mother told us to get away from the windows!

In the house lived a man about my age now. I painted him as a tall man, like I remembered him,yet I didn't draw his face because I could not remember his face. Years later I came back to the village for my school reunion - it was on TV , the radio and in the newspapers.

The village hasn't changed, except for the lack of church services which don't take place because there aren't enough believers!

In the paintings you can see the house of the Marion family where my family and I lived.

On the left side they kept the animals and that is also where we slept.

The Marions slept on the right side. I can remember everything like it was yesterday I then decided that when I finish this series of paintings I will go back to present an exhibition in the small gallery of the village.

I hope I can show my gratitude to the people of the village through my paintings.

I have always felt bad about not keeping in touch with those children of my village.

After the reunion I felt a need to represent this era of my life. A year and a half ago I started dealing with this series as if dealing with the memories of a youngster.

I had pangs of conscience for leaving as a child and never keeping in touch. . .

After the visit I needed to summarize that period, and I started painting a new series.

Sometimes I can't remember all the little details, therefore the series of the village have no details. I do remember large areas without breaks of light and shade and the windows peeking out from under a layer of thin white paint. . . " On April 13th Tzvi will open a new exhibition at Mitzpe Hayamim Gallery named: "From Native Land to Homeland" which displays paintings of images from the village.

The exhibition will also present pictures from what he has seen in his hometown of Ra'anana - and landscapes of Galilee

Dorit Rishoni Is an Israeli artist teaching painting in Israel and in Europ http://www.dorit-rishoni.com/14961497149315001500150815121493148915041505.html

dorit.rishoni@gmail.com ‍�‏

• RONIT BACHAR SHACHAR I was born in Israel , to a mom that was Holocaust survivor and a big part of my writing is dealing with the fact that as a child I was abused mentally and physically by my Mom. In my background I was an Art teacher and from time to time I still paint but mostly write now.

Lately I got a special Pesach Meyleen award for 42 of my poems.

My poems where published in a prestige's magazines in Israel as 'GAG' 'Zuta' and in Nili Dagan writing web site. My short stories in Yediot Acharonot America.

Live in Miami and work in Real estate. ronit757@gmail.com

‫שֵׁ ם‏אֶ מְ צָעִ י‏‬ ‫ִּפֹורּה‏וְנָתְ נָה‏בָּה‏ ְכנָ ַפי ִם‏גַם‏כֵׁן‏‏‬ ָ ‫וְלַ​ַאחַ ת‏קָ ְרָאה‏צ‬ ִ ‫ָאה‏פְרידָ ה‏‬ ‫וְל ִָראשֹונָה‏קָ ְר‬ ‫ו ְֹלא‏נָתְ נָה‏בָּה‏ח ֹפֶ ש‏ו ַהֲ מֹונֵׁי‏ּפ ְֵׁרדֹות‏שָ מָ ה‏בָּה‏‬ ‫וְלִשְ לִישִ ית‏ֹלא‏קָ ְרָאה‏בְשּום‏שֵׁ ם‏‬ ‫ירה‏בָּה‏חָ לָל‏עָ צּום‏ו ְַרב‏‬ ָ ִ‫ו ְהִ שְ א‬ ‫וְכָל‏מַ ה‏שֶ יָבֹוא‏ַאחֲ ָריו‬

Middle Name And to one of them she called lady bird and gave her wings as well To the first born, she called Frida While taking away her freedom The third she kept nameless As well as everything that followed She left her empty, shameless and hollow

Dance steps

When grandfather Papoo was groundbreaking in a dance At the events on the plaza in Holon The crowd that had assembled around him clapped their hands and cheered.

Papoo was waving with the fez on his head Red with golden embroidery brought from Istanbul In a British ship who knew many Occupation Grandpa Nathan His hat, color of ashes His suit, matches him as a glove Never danced; Except the dance on his lips.

On the day I was born He had lost his steps in a tunnel At the Ghetto of Lviv When seen up close Others dancing on Blood

Rock, paper, scissors to They threw rocks at her, launched spears Covered her body with ashes.

At night, a heavy layer of snow buried her tiny body under She crawled through bleeding corpses Years after her legs still froze from pain.

Rock, paper, scissors to Who's the winner of the two?

One, two, three, four, five, six Hitler came for Germany Simon says: What were you doing?

Where were you ?

What are you doing today To avoid a pain

• MARY KUSHILEVICH I'm a young, self-taught artist.

Since I can remember myself, I always loved to draw and paint and I could drift in the world of creation for hours.

Inspirations come from my memories, imagination and my favorite hobbytrips around the world. The inspirations are affected from my moods and significant life events I have experienced as a child. My emotions are expressed with many intense colors and brushstroke.

"Coulrophobia", 2013. Acrylic on cardboard, 70X100 cm.

The Nazism as a totalitarian ideology erased any trace of individualism and made the German society to Hitler's pawn.

But who really was Hitler? Did he really believe in the racial ideology or did he play a political game exploiting the hate of the Jewish people that was already there, as he implied by saying: "If the Jewish didn't exits, I would have to invent them"?

Hitler, who led the racial ideology, is pictured in my mind as ridicules and untruthful figure, like a clown with a mask that we never know what is hidden underneath, a figure that many people are afraid of. The all German society was hiding behind the mask of totalitarianism and massacred six million Jewish people and millions of other innocent life, some did it from hate, some did it from fear.

As a granddaughter of a holocaust survivor, I found this subject very personal and emotional for me. I chose the pop art style which appeared after the second war, to express the disrespect of human life, and my contempt to a figure that used to be admired in those days and even now, in some despicable circles. www.facebook.com/MaryKsArt

maryksart@gmail.com

• LEA PILZER-EFRAT I was born in Tel Aviv and have been carrying the legacy of the holocaust with me since my childhood. My art is a continuation of our family’s photo album and is dedicated to the parts of the family which have experienced and suffered the holocaust.

Bride and Groom. 120X60. Oil painting and collage I’ve used three medias: painting, photography and literature.

The face of my aunt Khava’le and her husband Aaron, which were married in Krakow,Poland in 1922, appear in my father’s photo album. I didn’t know them but using these actual pictures of their faces brought me closer to them.

On the top right there’s a train wagon photo which was shot at Yad VaShem and on it are the following words by the poet Dan Pagis: "Written with a pencil on a sealed wagon Here in this shipment I, Khava, am With Abel, my son If you see my eldest Cain, son of Adam Tell him that I am…”

Testimonies by survivors from Yad VaShem, along with details regarding my Uncle and Aunt and their daughters, are imprinted on the four patches which have been stapled on the bride’s dress. All have perished. lucy1@012.net.il

My Uncles. 80x60. Oil painting.

They were both stationed in Auschwitz and they both survived. I painted this in regards to a photo of them as young boys in Krakow, Poland, before the war.

Their stories and the fact that they had actually been in the camps and slaughter houses but managed to survive, are an inseparable part of their personalities.

The Railroad to "The Other Planet". 80x80. Oil painting and collage The idea of this picture was based on the book “House of Dolls” by Yehiel DiNur (Ka-Tzetnik) and on his statement about Auschwitz as “the other planet”.

Notes on his book are prescribed on the left edge of the picture.

The railroad leading to the gates of Auschwitz is loaded with photos of actual broken porcelain dolls. The gate which the railroad leads to is a closet of Jewish Judaica, emphasizing the traumatic meaning of the composition.

• MEGI ROME The meeting of Parallel lines This picture is a milestone for me. I led the two careers: Music and painting alternatively.

This painting is a symbol of the connection between them and these are two parallel lines that meet. Altough this is an optical illusion, in my world they met .

Railroads made of staves of music and above notes of one of the optimistic chorales of Bach . but as known in art, the number of interpretations as the number of people.

This painting has found its place as a main theme of a Holocaust Rememberance Day ceremony around the idea: "From Holocaust to Revival" ‌

www.megiromeart.com megiromeart@gmail.com

• JASMIN GERSHONY-GEYER I was born in Israel and raised in Berlin and Bonn, Germany.

I am a multidisciplinary artist and designer and a teacher of rehabilitating arts.

My figurative and expressive artwork is an intuitive reaction, a sensitive response to my feelings and thoughts.

My late grandfather,- a rabbi, author of " Lvov Ghetto Diary" was a survivor of ghetto Lvov. As him, my late grandmother and my mother survived the holocaust being hidden in a convent.

As a child I grew up with their testimonies and sensed their terror.

I do hope that the memory will be preserved and passed on constantly.

My poster of Anne Frank was selected for an exhibition for "International Remembrance Day" at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Center. The exhibition was called "Keeping the Memory Alive".

Mixed media, digital print ,50x70 gershony.geyer@gmail.com http://www.saatchionline.com/gergey

• LEAH HARPAZ In the painting I still felt a sense of adventure and discovery search. My ambition in painting is to reach the point where I delete words, narrative narratives trash, dive into the depths of the soul, there are hidden all the myths, if my personal or collective and paint the internal events that can not be described in words.

The survivors Bridge I have created The series as my play "smell of bread" that deals with Holocaust survivors in the family. The Play takes place on two levels, the real world and in the Imagination of my heroine.

It is A series of 8 paintings works drawn from the inner world of the protagonist, that simulates the normal life returning after the Holocaust and on the bridge that is leading to life, to Freedom.

My heroine is Stuck on the bridge Because She can not accept the fact that all her family, particularly her father Did not survive. Each drawing takes place in another year of her life, from what happens in reality.

During her life (and drawings) is imagining Herself of all the events, like the pogrom in Kielce in 1946, or the capture of Adolf Eichmann in 1960, and so on. The series ended in 1967 during the SixDay War waiting where Holocaust survivors seemed to come and will also occur in Israel.

harpaz40@gmail.com

‫‏‪• YOEL GILINSKY‬‬ ‫‏‬ ‫''ובבית‏היה‏שקט‪...‬צללים‏ארוכים‏נמתחו‏‪...‬‬ ‫לא‏דיברנו‏עם‏אבא‏על‏הזמנים‏ההם‪...‬אבא‏קפא‏בצפירה‪...‬‬ ‫אבא‏נותר‏לבדו‏כשהכסף‏חדל‏מלהגיע‪...‬בן‏‪16‬‏היה‪...‬‬ ‫ברח‏לארץ‪...‬לבדו‪...‬זאב‏ג'בוטינסקי‏נאם‏‪...‬בככר‏העיר‏וילנא‬ ‫‪...‬בקור‏ההוא‪...‬‬ ‫אחר‏כך‏נספגה‏האדמה‏בדם‪...‬לא‏נתייבשה‏מאז‪...‬לא‏נתביישה‬ ‫ולא‏יכלו‏השמיים‏להכיל‏את‏הכאב‪...‬ויחזירוהו‏לבני‏האדם‪...‬‬ ‫‏‬ ‫זהו‏מעשה‏של‏אדם‪...‬לא‏של‏אלוהים‪...‬דממה‪...‬דומיה''‬ ‫‏‬ ‫‏‬ ‫יואל‏גילינסקי‬ ‫אוד‏מוצל‏מאש‬ ‫אש‏גהנום‬

‫‏‬ ‫…‪''And there was dark…and man became an animal‬‬ ‫‪and the land soaked with blood‬‬ ‫…‪And the screaming…oh…the screaming…inhuman…unbelievable‬‬ ‫‪underground…on the ground‬‬ ‫…‪The distraction of heaven and earth‬‬ ‫…‪And darkness spread all over and inside out‬‬ ‫''‪Never again‬‬ ‫‪yogilin@netvision.net.il‬‬

• CHAVA POLIVODA jewelry drawings as memory of men women and children who died in the Holocaust i worked on the paintings for years I built them as one In order to keep the memory of it. polivodachava@gmail.com

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• YAFIT NOMBERG "Black and white are opposites, black and white complementary, highlight each other's existence. As well as in life, there is the white, black, many shades of gray and a whole world of colors."

(Dutch proverb) Background: I had always scribbled. Received feedbacks from my friends and they made me establish my works as paintings.

At the beginning These were initially abstract: abstract painting without objects or identified items.

However, the paintings were expressed values with texture shape and composition.

After a while, ideas began to emerge during the painting.

The ideas came as a result of an association or an emerging image of the objects.

The inspiration for paintings is taken from the immediate environment, nature, weather, etc.. size of the paintings: 49 X 35 cm yafitno1@gmail.com http://www.gallerina.co.il/membersInfo.asp?galleryID=174

• SIGAL MAGEN My dad was at the Holocaust, as a kid. He lost his brother there, lost his childhood, but most of all – lost the ability to feel safe.

As a kid, there were times I asked him about the Holocaust. He refused to talk. Even so, the memories were there, day and night.

Not long ago, A beautiful German girl came to visit us on a student exchange-program. She stayed with us, spent time with my daughter, who was her age, and they had fun together.

Obviously, I had mixed emotions. I asked myself whether I should talk about them, or use my father's approach and bottle them up.

I chose to talk, and the following poem was the result: I believe that the history is here. I can't ignore it, but I don't want to live in it. I pray that we'll be able to look at it and cure the past with lots of love.

I hope that my father is smiling from above‌ *The paintings were painted on my IPAD. http://www.sigal-magen.com

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life is in the air The history is near – We see it in the stones.

The history is here – Present in flesh and bones.

We'll look at it together, From every piece we learn.

It's in our hearts forever, But now it's our turn.

It's our turn to build The life we want today.

We are prepared and skilled We sing, we dance, we play.

We plant our future garden With seeds of joy and love.

We feel that our forefathers Are smiling from above. ‫‏‬ The history is near – We know, we don't forget.

But after lots of tears – And after that we met We build our life together Full of love and care.

The history is here But life is in the air…

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