Clodagh Finn: Horror of Holocaust not as remote as we sometimes like to think

Oliver Sears chart his family’s unspeakably difficult journey through the horrors of the Second World War in a new exhibition, ‘The Objects of Love’

Ambassador of Israel to Ireland Lironne Bar Sadeh looks at 'Portrait of Monika', painted in 1946 by a Russian lodger named Lodz, at the opening of ‘The Objects of Love’ exhibition in Bedford Hall, Upper Yard, Dublin Castle. The exhibition is free and runs until February 13. Picture: Mark Stedman

One of our most powerful gifts as humans is our ability to tell our own stories. The truth of that struck home after seeing how Oliver Sears, Dublin gallerist and second-generation Holocaust survivor, has used personal mementos to chart his family’s unspeakably difficult journey through the horrors of the Second World War in a new exhibition, ‘The Objects of Love’.

If the events of that time seem alien or remote, go to see it at Dublin Castle where it runs at Bedford Hall until February 13.