This short video-art shows how the number tattoo has become the predominant symbol of the Shoah. For those that bear these tattoos, their bodies can be seen as memorials, warning us of the dangers of forgetting. Argentinean artist, Mirta Kupferminc, the daughter of Auschwitz survivors, grew up embraced by the numbered arms of her parents. Given the popularity of decorative tattoos today, Kupferminc's "The Skin of Memory" invites us to reflect on the differences between tattoos chosen as ornamental designs and forced numbering.
ראיון עם אמנית וידאו ארט מיכל רובנר על מיצג הוידאו ארט "נוף חיים" מאת האמנית מיכל רובנר ומוצג דרך קבע במוזיאון יד ושם החדש. היצירה המבוססת על חומר מקורי משוחזר המתעד את חיי היום יום של יהודים במקומות שונים באירופה לפני השואה מוקרנת על קיר של 13 מטר המהווה את המשולש המזרחי של מבנה המוזאון.
Short interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman,, wife of artist and Holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and to Gleiwitz I. He survived a death march to Blechhammer concentration camp., Oberschlesien, where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States. Also in this report interview with Muriel Nezhnie-Helfman, (1934-2002) is best known for her...
Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman, wife of artist and holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Dav. Friedmann a.k.a. David Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Gleiwitz I. He survived a Death March to Concentration Camp Blechhammer, Oberschlesien where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States.
Otto Lowy remembers his life as a Jewish child in Prague under the Nazi occupation. The film follows him through the streets of the old Prague and the Jewish Quarter. His tour is intertwined with touring guide's briefings played by an actress. Lowy's life was saved when his parents sent him to England in 1939 as part of the Kindertrasport Operations.*
