They may just be 24 illustrated panels of about 800 words each, but to the Wiesenthal Centre, the People, Book, Land exhibition amounted to a major victory and a breakthrough for peace.
Abraham, Moses, David, Roman occupation, Judaism in Palestine, the birth of political Zionism and European immigration all feature in the exhibition on the 3,500-year-old Jewish ties to the Holy Land that opened at Unesco's Paris headquarters last week.
The point was clear: to demonstrate - using historical facts and scientific proofs - that Jews are historically bound to Israel.
"This exhibition is not like any other. There's a war of narratives and this event has opened the doors," said Hebrew University historian Robert Wistrich, who created the exhibition. "We can now move forward. This is a fight for the future and the legitimacy of Israel." The professor described the two-and-a-half years spent creating the exhibition as a "Via Dolorosa".
