yad vashem, jerusalem: high above the city, a visible reminder of origins. Imposing, spectacular, watching. martyrs and victims of history claim memory spots, expressed in the unusually lush landscape. Sculptures of transiting victims, stones for destroyed communities, freight cars that symbolise the departure from the Holocaust and arrival in Israel. Continuous and discontinuous journeys. Fraught relocations from and into a violent history of displacement. Resting grounds for the dead - eternal belonging.
