1951
Sara joins the Israeli army.
1954
Married to the Israeli-born Uri Atzmon. She has 6 children. The family does not speak about her past at home. Until almost 20 years later, when she begins to give lectures in schools.
Sara: „Future generations will see and understand what hatred and incitement can lead to.“
1964
The family transfers the remains of Sara's father, Edward Israel Gottdiener, from a Christian cemetery in Austria to Israel and burys them in a Jewish cemetery
1987
At the end of the 1980's Sara Atzmon begins to paint, deals with her experiences in the Nazi era emotionally, organizes exhibitions, travels around the world. She is committed to better relations between Jews and Arabs. Sara exhibits her paintings internationally, in Jerusalem (Yad Vashem), in the U.S., in Germany.
2007
A new memorial is opened in Bergen-Belsen. Sara Atzmon gives a moving opening speech.
Sara: „I hear the prayers of the white, bare skeletons. Their wide-open mouths call out - and I am a little girl that looks at them with fear and hope, because they may come back to life. But they did not awaken.“
2008 to 2012
Sara Atzmon travels to the USA, India, Burma, and repeatedly to Germany, showing her unsettling pictures. She calls it "a struggle against forgetting."
