Polina wrote a letter to her great-grandmother Hessya, daughter of Yaakov Genkin, and is very sorry that Hessya will not be able to read it. The exhibit is based on the letter. The exhibit details Hessya's life: iron tracks, a train, a globe of the world, a model of a ghetto, a POW camp, a Red Cross medical file, a cart with typhoid patients, Shabbat and challah candles, maps and letters. The main character, Hessya, is holding a globe of the world. Polina thanks her great-grandmother for the existence of the family's generations thanks to Hessya's courage, survival skills, and kindness.
My family story
By Manuel Hirsch Grosskopf