Archives: Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs Of Henryk Ross
“I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.” — Henryk Ross Imprisoned in Europe’s second-largest ghetto in 1940, Ross was assigned to take official identification photographs for the Nazi-controlled Jewish Administration. The Nazis forbade him from taking any unofficial images, under penalty of death. Yet against… Read More
Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade From 1808 To 1865
EXPERIENCE THE STORIES OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE BOUGHT AND SOLD Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865 illustrates the pain and injustice of the American domestic slave trade, illuminating just how widespread the practice of slavery was in American life, as well as its impact on enslaved families across the country. This… Read More
Activists And Icons: The Photographs Of Steve Schapiro
CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO THROUGH THE LENS OF A CAMERA “For me, there’s no difference between photographing a celebrity and a migrant worker. You’re always looking for a picture with emotion, design, and information.” – Steve Schapiro Activists and Icons: The Photographs of Steve Schapiro shows, through powerful documentary photography, that the issues of the civil… Read More
Stories Of Survival: Object. Image. Memory.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST EVERYTHING, A SINGLE OBJECT CAN TAKE ON EXTRAORDINARY MEANING. A teddy bear, a set of house keys, a typewriter – everyday objects that ordinarily provide convenience or comfort take on deeper meaning and become storytellers, in their own right, when they are remnants left from a world destroyed. Stories of Survival: Object…. Read More
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
How was one ghetto able to organize the largest single revolt by Jewish people during WWII? How were Jewish resistance fighters inside the Warsaw ghetto able to fight the Germans, who greatly outnumbered them in terms of manpower and weaponry, for nearly a month? The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest, and symbolically the most… Read More
How It Is, But How It Should Be: An Imagined Life Outside Of Gurs
A birthday present presented to a prisoner by her friend in honor of her sixty-fifth birthday. A seemingly simply gift, a book of hand drawn illustrations and poetic text reflecting the conditions inside the camp, and the wish for an imagined life of freedom, a dream of “how it should be.” The result is a… Read More
The Last Goodbye – A Virtual Reality Experience
The Last Goodbye is an award-winning virtual reality experience that transports viewers inside the Nazi death camp Majdanek in Poland with Pinchas Gutter, the only member of his family of four to survive the Holocaust. The fully immersive experience enables visitors to virtually walk with Gutter as he travels in life-sized projections of the camp,… Read More
Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust
How was a young boy able to survive in an attic, alone, for two years? How did a young child cope with being hidden in a convent, while her sister was hidden in a nearby farm, and her parents were sent to a concentration camp? How was a young girl able to survive on the… Read More
The 75th Anniversary Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The 75th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recognizes the largest and symbolically most important Jewish uprising in German-occupied Europe. The exhibition tells the stories of the leaders of the uprising and local survivors who lived through the heroic resistance. The exhibition pays tribute to the 750 Jewish fighters who led the largest resistance effort in… Read More
Where The Children Sleep
A boy without a bed.A girl afraid to close her eyes.A child who dreams of when bedtime didn’t bring terror. More than two million children have been forced from their homes by the war in Syria. Refugee children in neighbouring countries or making journeys through Europe show us where they sleep while they await an… Read More