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Prime Minister Netanyahu Visits Yad Vashem Art Exhibition in Berlin

100 Works from the Yad Vashem Art Collection on Display at the German Historical Museum

February 16, 2016

Accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited a new exhibition of Yad Vashem artworks currently on display at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Jointly curated by Yad Vashem and the Bonn-based Foundation for Art and Culture, "Art from the Holocaust: 100 Works from the Yad Vashem Collection" is the first-ever art exhibition of its size and stature that Yad Vashem has sent abroad. The exhibition, which attracted close to 12,000 visitors in its first two weeks and led to the extension of opening hours at the Museum, will be on display until 3 April 2016.

U  pratnji njemačke kancelarke Angele Merker , izraelski premijer Benjamin Netanyahu , zajedno sa suprugom Sarom, je posjetio novu izložbu  u Njemačkom povijesnom muzeju u Berlinu,  koju je poslao Yad Vashem.

 Izložbu su zajedno postavili Yad Vashem i " Foundation for art and culture" ( iz Bonna). Naziv izložbe je "Umjetnost iz Holokausta - 100 radova iz  kolekcije Yad Vashema" ,  i to je prva izložba koju je Yad Vashem poslao u inozemstvo. Izložba ima  veliki interes - blizu 12.000 posjetilaca u prva dva tjedna, bilo je produženje vremena kad je muzej otvoren - a  izložba će trajati do 3.travnja 2016...

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Chancellor Merkel opened the exhibition on 25 January, the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the presence of Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev; German Federal Minister for Culture and Media Prof. Dr. Monika Grütters; Prof. Dr. Alexander Koch, President of the German Historical Museum; Prof. Dr. Walter Smerling, Chairman of the Foundation for Art and Culture and Curator of the Exhibition; Vivian Uriah, Director of Yad Vashem's Museums Division; Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg, Director of Yad Vashem's Art Department and Curator of the Exhibition; Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, Chairman of the Society of Friends of Yad Vashem in Germany; and Kai Diekmann, Publisher of BILD Group and Board Member of the Foundation for Art and Culture.

Also present were Holocaust survivors, including Nelly Toll, the only surviving artist of the 50 represented in the exhibition. Half of the artists were murdered during the Holocaust. The works meticulously selected from Yad Vashem's Art Collection - the largest of its kind in the world, with almost 10,000 artworks - were all created between 1939 and 1945, as events were unfolding and the artists experienced them first-hand...

"Through art we can feel the power and the suffering of human beings," said Chancellor Merkel during the opening event. "The paintings are a warning for us, each one in its own way: What happened is not to be forgotten, the memory of the victims has to be kept and we have to do everything with all our power so that it won't happen again."

"The artworks we chose for this exhibition constitute rare human testimony," explained Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev. "They cry out with the greatest sensitivity; at once naive, trusting and prayerful, while also realistic and insightful. They provide a unique expression to the spirit of humankind, as it confronted unexplained human immorality. Such a confrontation through creative expression awakens us to reflection and soul-searching; the visitors to this exhibition will be exposed to creative sparks of humanity, and will come away with those sparks to illuminate their way."...