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#Exhibition : "Fanny’s Journey" - Museum Yad LaYeled, Yad LaYeled, Ghetto Fighters' House
Presented at the Yad LaYeled children’s museum, located within the Ghetto Fighters’ House, the exhibition Fanny’s Journey highlights a figure still too rarely addressed in narratives of the Holocaust: Jewish children who became agents of their own rescue. Through the drawings of Fanny Ben-Ami, a child hidden in France, the exhibition traces a story of flight, responsibility, and survival, conceived primarily for a young audience.
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The Yad LaYeled children’s museum, located within the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Israel, presents an exhibition designed for children aged 10 and above, based on drawings created by Fanny Ben-Ami when she was thirteen years old. These works recount her experience as a Jewish child hidden in France during the Second World War. They trace the different stages of her clandestine journey: separation, flight, the crossing of forests, and the passage into Switzerland, as she led a group of children to refuge, thereby escaping Nazi persecution.
By focusing on Jewish rescuers and on children’s capacity for initiative, the project addresses a theme that remains relatively underrepresented in Holocaust-related museum narratives. The curatorial approach emphasizes values such as courage, responsibility, solidarity, and leadership, in keeping with the museum’s educational objectives.
The exhibition invites young visitors to engage with the history of the Holocaust from a child’s perspective, through an experience that is at once narrative, artistic, and educational.
This exhibition received the support of the Foundation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
Exhibition: Fanny’s Journey
Yad LaYeled Children’s Museum, Ghetto Fighters’ House
D.N. Western Galilee 25220
Sunday to Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
