Artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson’s mural for the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza reflects on forced displacement during and after the Holocaust and how this uprooting shaped Philadelphia’s cultural and linguistic diversity. Through community meetings, local residents shared childhood memories such as prayers, songs, poems, and lullabies. These became the building blocks of the mural - building blocks of family heritage and cultural memory. The work explores what has been passed down a