The Holocaust Memorial Museum – Dr Avril Alba poetry They came from the stetl

They came from the stetl to a new land

More than ten years later those drawings had become the "diamonds in the crown" öf the Holocaust

Innocent and imprisoned once again

Challah cover by South African designer Danielle Abel of Chai Modern

The Holocaust Memorial Museum – Sacred Secular Space reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols

The Holocaust Memorial Museum – Dr Avril Alba poetry They came from the stetlThe Holocaust Memorial Museum Sacred Secular Space reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the secular history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory. Dr Avril Alba is Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation at the University