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This special online exhibition, based on the Yad Vashem Art Collection, features works created between 1945 and 1947 and attempts to investigate how survivors reacted to the liberation through art.
Nachum Bandel, Rita Weiss, Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Herta Goldman and Walter Zwi Bacharach
Marking 80 Years since the Defeat of Nazi Germany
"Although we had seen a lot and experienced the worst, we still had hoped, still had dreamed. All those days we had struggled to survive, hour after hour, day after day, there had been no time to grasp the enormity of our tragedy. Now everything became clear. No longer were our families waiting for us; no homes to go back to. For us, the victory came too late, much too late."
Shmuel Krakowski
Spotlight
18 August 1945
12 November 1945
April 1946
April 1945
Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Questions We Wanted to Ask – Part 3
Questions We Wanted to Ask - Part 5
The "Ha'apala" Movement
Sole Survivor of the Struma Disaster
October 1948
February 1947
Online Exhibitions
The personal stories, artifacts, artworks and historical documents from Yad Vashem's collections showcased in this exhibition reflect different aspects of liberation: the challenges faced by Holocaust survivors and the attempt to rehabilitate themselves and to build new lives. They testify to the strength of the human spirit, and the survivors' ardent wish to embrace their freedom, both as Jews and as human beings.
"My Lost Childhood"
A Visual Retrospective
Holocaust Survivors Meet Soldiers from Eretz Israel
Educational Materials
"Despite It All, I Am Alive"
Educational Perspectives
Education unit based on the online exhibition "A Time to Heal"
This site features an animated exhibition, interactive map and educational discussion material
From the Yad Vashem Art Collection
Majdanek and Auschwitz Liberated: Testimony of an Artist
The Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art, 1945-1947
On the Holocaust - a Yad Vashem Podcast
First Letters after Liberation
Four letters by four survivors, written shortly after being liberated, tell the story of the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath in a way that few other texts can.
After the Holocaust, a group of young Jews decided to enact revenge on the Germans. They called themselves "The Avengers". Their plan? An equivalent punishment.
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Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dalia Ofer
Beni Virtzberg
Educational Kit
Educational Kit
Uri Chanoch | Judith Chanoch
Editors: Robert Rozett, Iael Nidam-Orvieto
Written in the immediate aftermath of liberation by Holocaust survivors and soldiers, these letters reflect the mixed emotions of the survivors – the sigh of relief intertwined with the anguish of irreparable loss.
Editors: Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev
Mediating between a world that is no more and life rebuilt, the book leads the reader through the historical events as presented at the Yad Vashem Museum Complex, with documents, works of art and thousands of photographs.
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott