Upcoming exhibition
Living Memory: Yad Vashem Collections – Between Past and Future
The exhibition will showcase treasures from the Yad Vashem collections, and will illustrate how they preserve, shape and convey Holocaust memory.
Close to 400 rare items from the collections, most of them from the Holocaust period, will be displayed. The items will reveal fascinating stories, the fate of their owners and how they themselves survived and reached Yad Vashem. In parallel, the exhibition will reveal the work behind the scenes: the preservation, the research and the efforts to put a name and face to anonymous artifacts. This is an opportunity to reflect on the significance of memory in our times, and our responsibility to pass the torch of memory to future generations.
Past Exhibitions at the Exhibitions Pavilion
Curator: Vivian Uria
Year: 2018
Close to 1,500 photographs, albums, diaries, newspaper pages and film clips were displayed in this exhibition, depicting the Holocaust from three perspectives: the Jews, the German Nazis and the liberators. A critical examination of documentation through the camera lens, focusing on the circumstances of the photograph and the worldview of the photographer, while referring to the Jewish photographers’ different and unique viewpoints as direct victims of the Holocaust.
Stars Without a Heaven – Children in the Holocaust
Curator: Yehudit Inbar
Year: 2015
Seeking to give a voice to the 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust, this exhibition explored the world of the child during the Holocaust, and presented children's experiences during the Holocaust period. Each story was accompanied by a visual display in the form of an artifact that survived the Holocaust, an artwork or an animated film.
The display was divided into eight main topics, including play, study, friendship, identity, home and family.
My Brother's Keeper – 50 Years Honoring the Righteous Among the Nations
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2013
This exhibition presented the various efforts by non-Jews to save Jews during the Holocaust. Five films were screened that highlighted the complex human situations that were created by the reality of the Holocaust. Each film depicted a principal rescue story and additional stories. The films portrayed the indecision and the dangerous choices facing those later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, and the reality confronting both the Jews and the rescuers.
Curator: Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg
Year: 2012
This exhibition portrayed the tremendous creative drive that moved Jewish artists from different backgrounds to execute entire series of portraits, despite appalling living conditions and lacking crucial tools of the trade. With just a few lines of pencil or charcoal on paper, the artists managed to breathe life into the images of people in the shadow of death. By reproducing each individual's facial features, the artists gave him back his soul - the very quality the Nazis sought to eliminate. This did not happen in one isolated case, nor was it incidental: the phenomenon occurred simultaneously in dozens of ghettos and concentration camps throughout those terrible years.
Virtues of Memory: Six Decades of Holocaust Survivors' Creativity
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2010
The virtues of memory received a form, face and voice in this exhibition, which was a multifaceted, multilayered visual tapestry.
"Each of the works is the voice of an individual; combined, they present a powerful ensemble, whose commanding expression of truth and memory calls out to us all."(Yehudit Shendar)
This exhibition showcased the artistic expression of the individual, at the same time bestowing a legacy to others. The artwork of prestigious artists like Samuel Bak, Yehuda Bacon, Moshe Kupferman, Shemuel Katz, Marcel Janco, Paul Kor and Friedel Stern was displayed alongside hundreds of pieces of art by lesser-known, and even amateur, artists, some of whom were displaying their work in public for the very first time. Despite the individuality represented in each work, the exhibition was divided thematically and visually, grouping together recurrent themes and modes of expression.
Curator: Yehudit Inbar
Year 2010
The exhibition displayed sketches and blueprints, as well as an album documenting the construction of Auschwitz with photographs of the building process, on display for the first time. Other items on display included RAF aerial photographs, the Vrba-Wetzler report (written by two Jewish prisoners who succeeded in escaping Auschwitz in 1944), quotes from SS men and Jewish inmates describing the camp and its murderous purposes, and a copy of Paul Celan's "Death Fugue".
My Homeland: Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2008
Marking the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, this exhibition told the story of Holocaust survivors in the shaping of Israeli identity. A multidimensional exhibition, it illustrated how their influence affected all aspects of Israeli society. Almost from the start, their influence went beyond the personal realm and impacted the daily life of all Israelis.
Curator: Yehudit Inbar
Year: 2007
Approximately three million women and girls were murdered in the Holocaust. This exhibition told their stories and created space for their unique voice, highlighting their actions and reactions during the Shoah. Women in the Holocaust applied their minds to a place that deprived them of their minds; brought strength to a place where they had no strength. And in a place where they and their families had no right to live, they marched all the way to death and invested every additional moment of life with meaning.
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2006
Viewers joining the six-decade-long journey of Samuel Bak’s works, as presented in this exhibition, were presented with a multi-faceted experience – an encounter with an artist dealing head-on with the basic question of “how” underlying the language of art, with an artist debating with himself about the abstract, the figurative and the gamut between them. His varying stylistic periods reveal an artist capable of producing fine pencil drawings in the classical tradition, on the one hand, and thick, layered oil brushstrokes of pasticcio color on large canvasses. Every period reveals a little but conceals twice as much about the inner burden.
Charlotte Salomon: "Life? Or Theater?"
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2006
This exhibition showcased the artworks of Charlotte Salomon, who was murdered at Auschwitz while pregnant. Some 280 artworks were displayed, chosen from 1,300 pages that she created in color, prose and music during the years 1940 and 1942, while in forced exile in southern France. The exhibition was accompanied by musical pieces that Charlotte integrated into her works.
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2006
Portraying the fate of artists of l’École de Paris (School of Paris), the exhibition focused on the lives and oeuvre of Jewish painters and sculptors who were persecuted and ultimately murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. In the exhibition were some 150 works of art accompanied by photographs, original documents and biographies, a tribute to the over 60 artists on display, among them Chaim Soutine, Rudolf Levy, Adolphe Feder, Otto Freundlich, Max Jacob and Leon Weissberg.
Etched Voices: The Holocaust in the Art of Contemporary Artists
Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Year: 2005
A collection of artworks presenting the evolving portrayal of the Holocaust since the end of World War II. The exhibition comprised 130 works from some 70 renowned Israeli and international artists, representing a variety of artistic disciplines and portraying an ongoing discourse on the Shoah in Israeli art through the years. From artists who experienced the Holocaust or lived during that period, to leading and avant-garde artists in Israel an abroad whose viewpoint offers a broader perspective, the exhibition provided a basis for a comprehensive philosophical discussion on the nature of art, its function in society and the connection between art and history.
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