Holocaust or Hope mini museum with an escape room (Weshoe Company)
Ofer Aloni, known to many as a multidisciplinary creator - creator, writer, painter, lecturer, producer and designer - dedicates his life to the assimilation of hope.
In the "Shoah or Hope" visitor center and museum that he created and founded, he takes us into the "escape ghetto" that allows us to find hope, because in all languages of the world they say: "A person without hope is considered dead."
Those who go through the experience that Ofer created indeed gain insights into the definition of hope and finding
it. For many years, Ofer Sharanka assimilated hope in the campaigns he did for major companies in Israel and abroad, among them: Kawasaki, Roche, hp motorcycles and the ministries of foreign affairs and tourism. "Apparently closely related to what would turn out to be a significant milestone in his life, even though he didn't know it in the early years of his adulthood.
Ofer Aloni in the name of Sharanka (ofra in Polish) sparks an uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto (Photo: Ariel Bashor)
The turning point in Ofer's life occurred the day he found a box from the Second World War in his father's apartment in the Medina Square.
The box, which was discovered in the distraction, revealed hidden capsules and details of information about the basics related to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was, among other things, an inspiration for the establishment of the State of Israel, world democracy and even the youth rebellion and rock and roll.
According to him, life, as he knew it before finding the box, was only a promo for what was to come, because with the help of Prof. Israel Gutman, born in Warsaw who served as the chief historian for Holocaust research at Yad Vashem, Aliza Vitis Shomron, born in Warsaw and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Prof. Matathiu Mintz , who was a professor in the Department of History of the People of Israel and head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University, who, with the help of documentation and history books from 1946, was able to sketch the character of Rachel Leah Sharanka, his maternal aunt, who sparked the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and even sacrificed her life in a heroic act along with her household Maya, who is being searched for even at the time of writing these lines.
Closing a circle or opening it?
Ofer points to his aunt and cousin, in the statue "In my life" in Warsaw, which was copied by Yad Vashem (Photo: Ruth Aloni)
In memory of his aunt, and in memory of the true story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Ofer founded the "Escape Ghetto" in the Holocaust or Hope Museum.
The place offers a unique, powerful and unforgettable experience, which leaves a mark on everyone who hopes, because "hope is the force that moves us" he says.
"It is a mental need that cannot be physically realized, similar to the horizon line, which recedes from us as we move toward it. However, it is the motivation to get up in the morning, to move, to live and to create.
The place is divided into four chapters: A. Understanding what is there, B. Ghetto escape, C. Rebellion Warsaw Ghetto, D. Hatikva The
place is made up of many dozens of works, books, paintings and films created by Ofer as well as rare historical documentation for the most important uprising in the world in World War II.
Ofer paints in his museum, the famous photograph taken by his mother Ruth Aloni, in 1937 in Warsaw, the photograph served as an inspiration for the photographer Natan Rapoport to sculpt the statue "With my life" in Warsaw. (Photo: Asi Alonikov)
The place reveals a glimpse into the fields of art, history and Jewish philosophy, and provokes existential questions about life.
There are also tours of about an hour and a quarter, lectures and seminars on the assimilation of hope.
The "New York Times" defined the importance of hope as "creating awareness of hope as a goal-directed process."
To coordinate a tour of the "Shoah or Tikva Museum with the Escape Ghetto"
: Ypa Nof light rail station, 120 Herzl Boulevard, Jerusalem, Tel.: 050-2578313
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