My late father, David Moshkowitz, was born in Pl´o´n sk, Poland.

In 1942, he was deported, along with the rest of his large family, to Auschwitz-Birkenau

death camp.

Only he and his brother and two sisters survived.

My late mother, Malka Moszkowicz, was born in Lancut, Poland.

From 1939 until the end of the war, she and her family were on the run, hiding in

various hideouts in Europe.

Only she and her father and mother survived.

In 1949, my mother and father met on board of a boat that carried refugees – holocaust

survivors – to Israel.

They rebuilt their lives in Jaffa, concealing and repressing past horrors, which nevertheless

projected and influenced the course of their life and that of their progeny.

78446, the number that was tattooed on my father’s forearm in Auschwitz-Birkenau,

is my souvenir-legacy-scar constituting a meaningful motif in my work as an artist.