Yair Vardi drew this blunt caricature, that accuses the Israeli society and government of neglecting helpless Holocaust survivors.
Translation from Hebrew caption: In Israel there are about 260000 Holocaust survivors, third of them live in poverty.
The Yellow Badge is used here as an instant identifier of Holocaust survivors, and that’s why I publish it here.
Copyright © Yair Vardi 2008
Photo is courtesy of Bnei Brak artist, Nechama Golan. It took part in an art exhibition titled: Layers of Memory that was held in Zaritzky Artists House in Tel Aviv in 2007.
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Nechama Golan, who took a photograph of her own hand, and processed it in a computer in 2007. The work took part in an exhibition titled: Layers of Memory. When I look at it, I reflect about the Nazi salute, but during the Holocaust the Star of David was a symbol of weakness, and look how proud it is now, towards our 60th Independence Day. The two versions of the same image lead the interested spectator to make comparisons…
Copyright © Nechama Golan 2008
Photo is courtesy of artist Ora Reuven, who added her drawings to a photo she took in Jaffa, where she grew up, which was ones a mixed Jewish-and-Arab neighborhood, but now almost all the Jews left, and those who stayed mark their homes with a Star of David.
Interestingly, one may see similar blue Stars of David on the walls all around the Palestinian Authority areas; those were made by proud settlers, expressing their conviction that Israel is strong. Here, in Jaffa, the same emblem suggests Weakness…
Copyright © Ora ruven
Photo of Stars of David on the houses of Jaffa is courtesy of artist Ora Reuven, who added her drawings to a series of photos she took in Jaffa, where she grew up, which was ones a mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhood, but now almost all the Jews left, and those who stayed mark their homes with a Star of David.
Copyright © Ora ruven
Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmon shot this photo of the Wailing Wall in a Star of David frame; it is part of a series titled: Black Box.
The Souvenir Series includes:
1. Black Box - Souvenir from Israel
2. Sehnsucht Heimat - Souvenir from Tirol
3. European Eyes on Japan - Souvenir from Tokyo
4. The Aftermath - Souvenir from Holocaust Memorials
5. MZG - Souvenir from the GDR
6. Zwiebeltown - Souvenir from Weimar
7. Bin There Done That - Souvenir from 9/11
8. D.O.M (Lighters)
9. Fundamental Bonbons
These Souvenirs, according to the artist:… are mini-copies, memories of a trip, a stay somewhere, a moment. They come from a home, which they want to mirror, into a strange land: fragments of memory, chunks of yearning, signs of history, evidence of existence, knick-knacks.
Copyright: Naomi Tereza Salmon 2008
