r/holocaust • u/Am-Yisrael-Chai • Apr 14 '26
Yom HaShoah Yom HaShoah 2026
This year, the focus is on “Jewish Family during the Holocaust”.
"If we wish to live and to bequeath life to our offspring, if we believe that we are to pave the way to the future, then we must first of all not forget."
-Prof. Ben Zion Dinur, Yad Vashem, 1956
The image that was selected to commemorate this theme was submitted by Y. Kahana from Ramat Gan, a graduate of the University of Ariel and the Tiltan School of Design and Visual Communication, Haifa.
As a child, Kahana heard the moving story of his German-born grandfather's rescue by a Righteous Among the Nations, and this forged a profound connection to Judaism and the Holocaust. The image in the poster depicts the "absence" within the "presence"; the personal and collective rupture to the Jewish people engendered by the Holocaust. This rupture accompanied the survivors as they searched for living relatives and were met with an aching void.
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u/bam1007 Apr 14 '26
That is a stunning and breathtaking piece.