New Exhibit at Beit Moreshet

 

A new exhibit is being launched in Moreshet Gallery at Givat Haviva:

 

"The journey to the Yearning of the soul"

The story of the immigration of the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to Israel

 

This exciting exhibit tells the story and unfolds the organization and the activities of Holocaust survivors after World War II in the refugee camps, in the roads of the "Bricha" organization (their wandering through Europe) and in the Ha'apala (the "illegal" immigration to Israel). Many of the survivors discovered that they had no home to go back to after the war and no families left. They joined together in groups and organizations and decided to immigrate to Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) – "the yearned land of their soul" as the poet Aba Kovner put it. Even though the shores of Eretz Israel where closed to them, ships loaded with "Ma'apilim" departed from Europe. Many disasters of drowning befell the ships and tens of thousands of "illegal" immigrants where sent to the detention camps in Cyprus. After the suffering of the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands survivors arrived in Israel, to settle and build new life there.

 

This unique exhibit presents a variety of documents and photos from the Moreshet Archives together with art works, some of them not previously displayed publicly, of 5 painters, all survivors of the Holocaust and members of Kibbutzim: Yechezkel Kimchy, Chaim Bargal, Mula Ben-Chaim, Shmuel Katz and Shraga Weil.

 

The exhibit will be displayed at Beit Moreshet, Givat Haviva, September through December 2008

 

 

Curator: Snunit Ozacky

Designer: Yuval Danieli