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Official Poster - Yom Hashoah 2025

Official Commemorative Poster 2025

"Shaping Memory" Competition

The annual "Shaping Memory" competition, now in its fifteenth year, invites contemporary Israeli artists to portray the Holocaust’s complex and diverse layers of significance through a visual prism. This year’s competition to design the official poster marking Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day focused on the theme Out of the Depths: The Anguish of Liberation and Rebirth - Marking 80 Years since the Defeat of Nazi Germany. The winning poster, designed by graphic artist Avraham Yadan, was chosen by a distinguished panel of artists and Holocaust education experts, and is being distributed and displayed across Israel to mark Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Day 2025.

NIS 25.00

The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Postwar Diaries of a Child Survivor, Volume 6 - February 2, 1947 – July 12, 1947

 

Author :Yehuda Bacon

World-renowned Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon began keeping adiary in July 1945, while living in a youth home in Štiřín, Czechoslovakia, shortly after his liberation. During the  past seven decades, Bacon has filled over 240 notebooks. His diary is a mosaic of words and drawings through which he remembers his past, contemplates his present, and  imagines his future Bacon was born in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, aged thirteen, he was deported with his family to Theresienstadt. In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was interned in the family camp; a few months later, he was among a group of teens selected to work as forced laborers. Bacon survived death marches to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen before he was finally liberated, only to discover that his family had been murdered, aside from one sister who had left Czechoslovakia before the war. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia, Bacon lived in a provisionary youth  home run by the humanist Přemysl Pitter. In 1946, Bacon immigrated to Eretz Israel and studied at the Bezalel Academy of . Arts and Design, later becoming a professor of graphics and drawing and achieving fame as an artist

NIS 117.00
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