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LONDON (EJP)--- As the community remembered the three Jewish victims on the first anniversary of last year's July 7 suicide bomb attacks in London, the city's mayor has paid tribute to one Jewish woman killed in the attacks.
Miriam Hyman died on the number 30 bus travelling through the Tavistock Hill area. The 32-year-old, who worked as a picture editor, was also a budding artist, and a book of her work has been published after her death, with proceeds going to charity.
The book was launched with an exhibition at City Hall, the home of the Greater London Authority, the body headed by Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Generous spirit
Commenting on Hyman's illustrations, Livingstone said: “Miriam's vibrant and life-affirming paintings are testimony to her undoubted talent and much spoken of generous spirit and it is fitting that they should be displayed in City Hall.”
Her family and friends came together in Golders Hill Park, north west London, to hold a gathering to remember the victim.
Hyman's mother Mavis spoke of the pride she had that the pictures are being displayed at the prestigious venue. “We are grateful and appreciative of the opportunity to have Miriam’s paintings shown in a fine and central venue, over a period which includes the first anniversary of the bombings," she said.
Over the last year a trust set up in Hyman's name has raised over 40,000 pounds for the ORBIS UK blindness prevention charity.
As well as the exhibition, an interfaith concert was held in her memory t the South London Liberal Synagogue in Streatham.
Stressing that the concert reflected Miriam., Mavis told the Totallyjewish website: “As it is an interfaith concert it would have been very close to Miriam’s heart. She lived her life without barriers of race or creed. This would have been very much in accordance with what she would have wanted.”
Memorial services
Hyman was one of 52 people killed when four Islamist extremist bombers struck in separate locations in central London. Across the capital ceremonies were held last week to remember those murdered in cold blood, with the central event being held at Kings Cross station.
The two other Jews killed were Israeli charity worker Anat Rosenberg and mother Susan Levy.
A year on and Rosenberg's John Falding said he has found it difficult to comprehend what happened.
"It's so hard to take in what happened; so hard to take in that Anat was involved in it," he said. "I think of the things we would have done, of all the things I would have told her. It's impossible to think it has been a year. The time has flown by in a haze."
Levy, 53, from Cuffley in Hertfordshire., was killed in the bomb at Kings Cross.
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