PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia is now home to the nation’s first large-scale mural dedicated to Holocaust remembrance in a public space.
The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia dedicated the 2,000 square-foot mural titled “Lay–lah Lay–lah.” It is made of hand-painted calligraphy in 28 languages, revealing memories, lullabies, prayers and poems collected from Philadelphians. As noted on the Foundation’s website, the piece focuses on forced displacement and “experiences of erasure and survival.”
“The Holocaust is many times referred to as a dark time of history, or the night of history, many say, so I wanted to create something that allows us to see how we step out of this, and how we step out of the victimhood of the shame and still remember it,” said artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson…