Memory Project: An art installation by Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman

A Holocaust survivor's riveting testimony about life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brother she lost to the nazis blended with time lapsed images of her daughter painting a series of haunting portraits of that very boy--her uncle. This is the video portion of an art installation. For more information see www.memoryprojectproductions.com

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• rozjacobs
• laurie
• weisman
• holocaust
• warsaw
• ghetto
• art
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• memory
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• anna
• jacobs

[rozjacobs]

Thanks for your comments! We have a new video up on youtube showing how we used The Memory Project at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in NY. What a wonderful experience we all had! The sophomores learned about the Holocaust, about their families and each other and created amazing artwork.

Roz

[thefamfamgoro1]

This was so beautifully done and so moving.

[ksw222]

Roz and Laurie, your video is fantastic! - the perfect blend of narrative, process, art, philosophy, humanity, life, loss, re-finding, love .... The way you tell the story over Roz's shoulder, combining her images as they come to life on the canvas in front of her (and us) with the sound of her voice as she ponders her mother's past through a single photograph of the little brother is incredibly powerful! Bravo!!

[haroldjacobs]

Thank you for this superb creation. Words cannot express its magnitude.

[whiteroselynx]

How to approach the Holocaust, a subject to which many of us have become inured, in a fresh light, so that its significance is conveyed and renewed? Laurie Weisman and Roz Jacbos have done it with this video and the Memory Project. Art is the medium as they transform a woman's memory and her photograph of a lost relative, a boy, into a grid of portrait variations emerging simultaneously as his story is told. Loss and recovery come together; memory transfigured through art. -Jud Newborn,Ph.D.

[yiama]

your presentation is truly inspiring and watching that little boy emerge with each portrait was fantastic. The story as Penny said, is all too familiar, but the way you have processed it has no doubt given your mother new old memories of her brother.

Your paintings and use of paint were so rich with feeling, very inspiring to see how others use paints to create.

[pdamaskos]

this is an amazing video--I have seen the installation in person and it is even more moving in real life. It is unfortunately a familiar story of relatives looking for one another during and after ww2 but to my knowledge it has never been articulated in this way--with the use of memory shared and learned and the "relocating" the lost person through art. it is really brilliant