Izrael Natan Melamed.
Sole survivor
Heavens Tears
The Umshlagplatz, Warsaw; place of deportation to Treblinka death camp for an estimated 300,000 Jews. On the day I visited heaven wept.
Sacrifice
I am sending you Helena's vase..
Psalm 56:8 ~ You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
James Russocki
Even as I write my eyes are sweating. Survivor of Mauthausen
Site of the ghetto bridge. Warsaw
Adam Adams (Izrael Melamed)
‘I only remember two things about the Warsaw ghetto. Stepping over bodies covered in newspaper and crossing the ghetto bridge.’
Rachele Fraenkel
‘I can feel pain, I don’t have to become my pain. I can feel sorrow, I don’t have to become my sorrow’
Steve Bloomberg
‘All I’m thinking is that if Tehiya wasn’t with us I have to be strong: I have to look after the kids, I have to survive’
Stanislaw Zwerbny
‘Do not return to Poland under any circumstances’ ~ Father.
Winniki-Lwow 1938
ticket home. 2018
St Mary's Church, Padbury
Mozart - Lacrimosa
Jerusalem
This is my body, broken for you.