You Shall Tell Your Children

Every year at Passover seders, Jews re-tell the story of the Exodus—their escape from slavery in Egypt. The most important gift a generation can impart to the next one is knowledge of the journey its ancestors took. Hindsight is a necessary tutor of foresight. We must retell the stories over and over, challenging ourselves to re-interpret them, and merging the old and new (e.g., lessons of the Holocaust) into stories to pass to our children. This storytelling is a “re-living”. History is what happened to someone else; memory is what happened to me. This quilt is based on a photo of the forest in Nemenčinė where my ancestors were murdered in 1941.