Yair Noam (1922-2021). We Are Coming!, 1936

Yair painted this artwork in 1936, some two years after his uncle and aunt, Gerhart and Ilse Heymann, left Germany for Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and settled in Haifa.  The painting depicts the moving reunion of the extended family in Eretz Israel, as imagined by the artist. Tragically, this reunion remained a figment of his imagination: Yair was the only member of his family who reached Eretz Israel.  His brother was sent to Scotland and his parents, trapped in Nazi Germany, were deported to the Chełmno extermination camp and murdered.