Aliza Auerbach has taken photos of Shoah survivors alone and surrounded by their families. The Israeli photographer directs our attention to life, recovery and continuity while she also recalls the lost generations. Her exhibition consisting of 44 photographs is a dynamic memorial of renewal.

About the photographer

Aliza Auerbach was born in Israel and studied philosophy and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She began taking still photographs for international movie productions, (working, among others, with Gregory Peck) then turned to photojournalism. Her work has been published in Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, New York Times, and The Times of London, Die Zeit,among others. In 1989 she turned to art photography.

Auerbach exhibited in Israel and around the world and won many prizes. Her works can be found in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv Museum, Ein-Harod Museum, the museum of Israeli Art, the Museum on the Seam, Tel-Chai Photography Museum, and in private collections all over the world.

Aliza's books include, among others, The Poems of Jerusalem, with Yehuda Amichai, (1987), Mothers on Earth (1997), Women at Work (2003), The Song of the Sea (2007), and the Trilogy: Rishonim (Pioneers, 1990), Aliya (1992), and Survivors (2012), which show the three main chapters of the Jewish history of the new era.