Kindness

KINDNESS

This project started in 2008 by arts organisation arthur+martha, working alongside older Jewish people including holocaust survivors. Kindness marked Holocaust Memorial Day 2009 in the UK, exhibiting textworks by survivors on the electronic billboard at Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station and through BBC online and other outlets. The project reached an estimated audience of over 60, 000.

kindness at Piccadilly animations LINK
The pieces address what it means to be both inside and outside a community, how it feels to make friends with a new culture, explore sense of belonging, displacement, impermanence, home and connection. We aim to promote understanding of and bear witness to the Holocaust.
 
to view photos of Bring Light Towards You at Piccadilly, please follow LINK
 
 

 

 

 

 

my father came from the courts said the law no longer exists
I spent the afternooniiiiiiiiii I remember him putting a little ornament ashtray
I remember
three times in my suitcase
    
along the platform groups of families on the journey a playful time
Nazi's were
   
marching to the song
    
if the Jewish blood... much more waiting to say I remember my parents waving
and
the sandwiches
my mother had so carefully prepared
waved in her hand April
acrid spring in the air
the tune Maotzur
the hatred in the air
                 
           
HM Goldberg: a journey Berlin/England