His father managed to save several family members from The Holocaust by arranging immigration certificates ( certifikatim ) to British Mandate Palestine , but some of his mother 's relatives perished in the Holocaust . Gershuni described in a late interview the presence of the Holocaust in his childhood : “ My mother was troubled all the rest of her life that she had not succeeded in bringing them here . And , like many others , I remember the years after the war … I remember that I read everything I could on the subject , there were already personal accounts of it on the radio , in private conversations , from the relatives who arrived . … it was in my consciousness , it was almost the center of my consciousness , in spite of the fact that my early years included the founding of the State and the war with the Arabs , but everything was a function of that experience . ” In 1952 the family moved from Tel Aviv to Herzliya , near to the family-owned orchards , in the Gan Rashal area . In 1954 , Gershuni ’s induction into the army was postponed by half a year because he was underweight , but the date of induction in 1955 was also postponed by the death of his father in an auto accident . Gershuni took over his father ’s job in the orchards . After his father 's death Gershuni began to move into the world of art . The painter Leon Fouturian and the sculptor Uri Shoshany , both residents of Herzliya , influenced him . From 1960 to 1964 he studied sculpture in night courses at Avni Institute of Art and Design , after days spent working in the orchards . His teachers were Dov Feigin and Moshe Sternschuss , members of the “ New Horizons ” group , which during these years was beginning to lose the central place it had held in the world of Israeli art
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Moshe Gershuni