New immigrant artists – one from South America and one from France - were recognized and selected to feature in events related to the Yom HaShoah memorial day last week.
A 19-year-old new immigrant from Argentina, Ana-Clara Polete-Mintz, had a one-week exhibition of her artwork at the Yad La’ad Beit Ha’ahedut Memorial Center for Hungarian Jewry on Moshav Nir Galim, near Ashdod. Another new immigrant, Rebecca Leiter, played the piano and sang at the opening of series of events commemorating Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day at the Center. Fifty other new immigrants, residents of the Jewish Agency absorption center in Ashkelon, took part in the ceremony. It was the first time that some of them were marking Yom HaShoah.
The artist Polete-Mintz is from Buenos Aires and she made aliyah a little over three months ago, in January 2003. She is now living at the Jewish Agency absorption center in Ashkelon. When the staff at Yad La’ad saw her portfolio, they invited her to display her works at the Yom HaShoah exhibit. The paintings just arrived in Israel from Argentina, accompanied by the young artist’s mother, who was present at the opening of the exhibit. Polete-Mintz came to Israel together with her brother, who is studying and living on Kibbutz Hatzerim. Not content with only receiving from her new community, Polete-Mintz has begun to give an art class at the absorption center where she resides.
Rebecca Leiter, 24-years-old, made aliyah from France. She also arrived in the country only relatively recently.
A 19-year-old new immigrant from Argentina, Ana-Clara Polete-Mintz, had a one-week exhibition of her artwork at the Yad La’ad Beit Ha’ahedut Memorial Center for Hungarian Jewry on Moshav Nir Galim, near Ashdod. Another new immigrant, Rebecca Leiter, played the piano and sang at the opening of series of events commemorating Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day at the Center. Fifty other new immigrants, residents of the Jewish Agency absorption center in Ashkelon, took part in the ceremony. It was the first time that some of them were marking Yom HaShoah.
The artist Polete-Mintz is from Buenos Aires and she made aliyah a little over three months ago, in January 2003. She is now living at the Jewish Agency absorption center in Ashkelon. When the staff at Yad La’ad saw her portfolio, they invited her to display her works at the Yom HaShoah exhibit. The paintings just arrived in Israel from Argentina, accompanied by the young artist’s mother, who was present at the opening of the exhibit. Polete-Mintz came to Israel together with her brother, who is studying and living on Kibbutz Hatzerim. Not content with only receiving from her new community, Polete-Mintz has begun to give an art class at the absorption center where she resides.
Rebecca Leiter, 24-years-old, made aliyah from France. She also arrived in the country only relatively recently.