“In My Mother’s Footsteps” by Yishay Garbasz will be exhibited in Chiang Mai beginning on 31 January.  The art exhibition will mark United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day and is presented by the Embassy of Israel in cooperation with Chiang Mai University and City Life Chiang Mai.

The exhibition is a moving photography project based on the memoirs of the artist’s mother recording her early life during World War II and the Holocaust as well as her experience in  a concentration camp.

Yishay Garbasz was born in Israel in 1970. He received his training in photography in the United States.

His mother was born in Berlin in 1929 and fled from the Nazis to The Netherlands with her parents and two sisters. In 1942 they were rounded up and transported to Camp Westerbork, thereafter they were moved through a series of concentration camps.

His grandparents did not survive. The exhibition is a moving journey to, as Garbasz explained in a recent interview, “all the places where I once lost a piece of my soul.”

_{(Issue February 2008)}