As people took part in the 'Light the darkness' national moment for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2022, iconic landmarks and screens across the UK lit up in solidarity.
A family photograph of Inge (Neufeld) Hyman and her children was one of the photographs exhibited in Piccadilly as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration.
Inge Hyman and her children photographed by Anna Fox (Hon FRPS). Commissioned by The Imperial War Museum and the Royal Photographic Society.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
“Working on the Holocaust survivors portrait project has been fascinating and humbling. Hearing the frequently hidden and powerful stories from my subjects has been mind-blowing and impossible to imagine, yet all with the knowledge that the kind of horrific crimes that happened in Nazi Germany are still happening. It is a reminder of the importance of remembering not to forget, to keep retelling the stories, to keep taking action.”
THE SURVIVOR
Inge Hyman (Ingeborg Neufeld) was born in 1935 in Vienna, where her parents ran a coffee house. Following persecution and the confiscation of their home and business, Inge, her brother Edgar and their parents escaped in 1938 on one of the last trains out of Vienna. Much of her extended family were not so fortunate. The family lived first in Paris then fled again to London, just before the Germans occupied France.
Inge, a clinical psychologist, has studied the effects of trauma. She married the eminent book publisher Robin Hyman and has three children. James is an art historian focused on supporting British art and photography; Peter is a political adviser and educationalist; and Philippa is a clinical psychologist. Inge has eight grandchildren.
