Yehuda Bacon's "Refugee From The Holocaust"

The Hilo Art Museum's collection entitled "Art of the Holocaust" is an emotionally moving collection of Holocaust and genocide art designed to celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit.

The public display of Holocaust art means bringing to light fragments of a fundamental part of human thought which we have lost as a result of prejudice, intolerance and war.

The initial collection which the writer, historian and artist Roberto Malini, president of the cultural association "Watching The Sky" of Milan, donated to the Hilo Art Museum, constitutes a first step towards realizing a dream, the dream of establishing a memorial to human rights on an island that seems like paradise, with the aim that art might bring to the young the inheritance that the victims and the survivors left to the world.