The faces of Holocaust victims and their memory is preserved through a series of mixed media collages created by Czech students. The collages include photos, pencil sketching, and paintings that are portraits of regular people living ordinary lives who were caught up in a world gone mad.
This itinerant exhibit is on display in Plainveiw, NY through May 1 at the Manetto Hill Jewish Center. The exhibit is titled "Neighbors Who Disappeared", and depicts the lives of Jews who disappeared from Czech towns during World War II. The exhibit was created by Czech children ages 12 to 21, where were encouraged to examine the lives of local residents who were deported form the children's own towns, and who were among the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The panels recreate the student's artwork that combines text, paintings, photos and drawings, and also includes facsimiles of historical documents that have been translated into English.