Naomi Henrik

Naomi Henrik was born in the city of Akkerman in Bessarabia to the family of gynecologist dr. Shaul Zellering (Russian: Цалеринг, Tzalering). In 1930 she and her family immigrated to the Land of Israel.[1]

She studied at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and the Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv. She studied sculpture with Zeev Ben-Zvi in Jerusalem and in 1945 she moved to London to continue her studies in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.[1]

During World War II she met her future husband Ron, and they were married in 1945. They had daughter, Ruthie Henrik-Steinitz.[2]

During 1971-1972 she headed the Artists' House in Jerusalem.[1]

Naomi Henrik died at her home in Ein Kerem.[2]

Monument for the Pathbreakers to Jerusalem

Monument to the Martyrs of the 679th Brigade

1974: Monument to the Martyrs of the 679th Brigade[3][2]

1967: Memorial for the Pioneers of the Road to Jerusalem ("Monument for the Pathbreakers to Jerusalem")[4]

In 1962 she won the competition for the monument at Yad Vashem "to symbolize the heroism of the Jews during the Holocaust" (The runner-up was Nathan Rapoport), but unfortunately her project was never realized and eventually in 1970 the Pillar of Heroism by Buky Schwartz was erected instead. [5][6]

She also devoted herself to works in mosaic.[2]

• 1964: Defense Ministry Prize for War of Independence Monument[1]
• 1965: Monument Design Prize, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem[1]

• Esther Levinger, "Women and War Memorials in Israel", Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (1995), pp. 40–46. doi:10.2307/1358629