The Yeshiva University Museum has 3 new exhibits that deal with memory:
Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945 - A Documentary Installation by Anne Griffin with Contemporary Photographs by Jean-Marc Gourdon (May 23, 2006 - December 31, 2006)
“This documentary exhibition presents wartime images, contemporary portraits, and personal testimonies of 25 courageous men and women who, more than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation in their small country, Belgium.”
The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig (May 23, 2006 - January 14, 2007)
“A postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has created symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history. Using his fertile imagination, the artist has developed his own iconography consisting of people, animals, landscapes, still-lifes, architecture in a Surrealist style relating to the works of Dali, de Chirico, and Magritte, and sharing the detail and impact of Hieronymus Bosch. Born in Cluz, Romania, he studied painting in Florence, Italy and has lived in Israel but now resides in Zurich, Switzerland. He has exhibited in Germany, Switzerland and the U.S.”
At the Altar of her Memories: A Memorial to a Lost Family - Video installation by Tova Beck-Friedman, Puppets by Bracha Ghilai (May 23, 2006 - January 14, 2007
An installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, who, at the age of seventeen, following liberation from Bergen-Belsen, came to Israel to start her life over, established a puppet theatre as a part of her healing process.
The gallery hours are Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am - 5 pm; the museum is located at 15 W. 16th Street in the Union Square area.


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