A picture book illustrating how a family hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust. A stack of yellow Star of David patches to be distributed to Jewish families. A spoon that deflected a bullet in the pocket of a young man as he escaped from death.
A new exhibition at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, puts hundreds of personal possessions and artifacts from Holocaust survivors, most never before seen by the public, on display for the first time. Entitled Living Memory, it offers a fresh and personal look at the lives of individuals whose stories were lost in the mass murder of six million Jews.
“This exhibition is really about memory — how we preserve it and transmit it, and how it shapes our identity and culture,” explained Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg, chief curator of the exhibit.
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