Publications

JNS – Jewish News Syndicate · October 29, 2026

Art ‘bound by destiny’: A Holocaust story is kept alive through the generations

Deborah Fineblum

A feature on Lior Marom and the series “For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return”, born of his family’s story of survival in the Holocaust and of his father’s childhood, and on the showing of the works at Georgian Court University in New Jersey and at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, where the series won the Bella Zarchi Prize. A Hebrew translation can be read here as well.

Ghetto Fighters’ House · Bella Zarchi Fund · 10 June 2026

First prize in the Artworks category – the Bella Zarchi Prize

Ghetto Fighters’ House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum · The Bella Zarchi Fund for the Heritage of Polish Jewry

The series “For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return” won first prize in the Artworks category of the Bella Zarchi Fund, together with a certificate of appreciation for a work of art on the Holocaust, heroism and the heritage of the destroyed communities. The prize was awarded at the museum’s prize and certificate ceremony, alongside a display of works from the exhibition, where Lior guided the visitors. Following the ceremony, a selection of works from the series remained on display at the museum for two more months.

Geis Gallery, Georgian Court University, New Jersey, USA · January 29 – February 12, 2026

Celebrating Jewish Artists – a group exhibition for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Curator: Marci Mazzarotto, MFA, PhD

Following an open call, the work “(Not) Speaking of the Dead Would Be Like Killing Them Again”, from the exhibition “For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return”, was selected for the group exhibition Celebrating Jewish Artists, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Geis Gallery, Georgian Court University, New Jersey, alongside works by other Jewish artists.

Alumon · Issue 40 · August 2025 · pp. 22–23

“For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return” – Paintings from the perspective of an artist, second generation of Holocaust survivors

Ron Harel

An article on the series “For from Me You Came”: family members of every generation, drawn on the pages of the memoir of Lior’s grandfather, Shlomo Aharon Blankitny. Alongside it, the story of his father, Major Gershon (Blankitny) Marom, in his own words. The article is in Hebrew.

The newsletter of Aluma – the Israeli association for commemorating and bequeathing the memory and heroism of the Holocaust

Yad Vashem · 14 November 2022 · Givatayim

Annual memorial assembly for the Jews of Pułtusk who perished in the Holocaust

The Organization of Pułtusk Descendants and Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

A memorial marking 83 years since the expulsion of the Jews of Pułtusk, held at the Volhynia Jewry Hall in Givatayim, a branch of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. Lior Marom spoke as an artist and architect of the second generation, and works from the exhibition “For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return” were shown at the event and in a slideshow, accompanied by the cellist Hamutal Tzur Marom. The invitation is in Hebrew.

Invitation · Holocaust Remembrance Day, 28.04.2022 · Pardes Hanna

Zikaron BaSalon – Memory in the Living Room

At the Marom family home

A Zikaron BaSalon gathering on Holocaust Remembrance Day: a reading of testimony from “GORAL”, the book by Lior’s grandfather Shlomo Blankitny, by the writer Oren Gazit; “Kol Nidrei” by Max Bruch, performed by Hamutal Marom, cello, and Dalit Rinat-Ogev, piano; and paintings from the exhibition “For from Me You Came, and to Me You Shall Return”, with a talk on the creative process by the architect and artist Lior Marom. The invitation is in Hebrew.