On the 27th of January of 1945, Russian Red Army entered the barbed-wire enclosure of Auschwitz and discovered 7,000 men, women, and children, along with the evidence of the lives of another thousands of people who had been deported there from German-occupied Europe.
Almost 80 years after its liberation, Auschwitz is still today a symbol of the Holocaust, one of the darkest chapters of recent History, in which Hitler’s Nazi Germany killed 6,000,000 innocents.
In an effort to illuminate one of the darkest chapters in our shared history, and provide universal warning, Musealia, in collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and over 20 international museums, created “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away”, a traveling exhibition that debuted in Madrid, Spain, in 2017, as well as “Seeing Auschwitz”, a photographic exhibition originally developed for the United Nations’ observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in 2020.
Having toured numerous cities worldwide, both exhibitions are now traveling North America: “Seeing Auschwitz” will soon open in Charlotte, at the Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery, on the 9th of February; and “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far away” which is showcased at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Los Angeles until January 28th, were rapidly became one of the most visited exhibitions at the library’s history, is next visiting Boston, opening on the 15th of March at the Castle at Park Plaza.
Both carefully curated exhibitions show the complex reality of this Nazi Germany concentration and extermination camp to millions of people, and elucidates, during a highly moving intellectual trip, how such place could come into being and how its existence determines our worldview even in the present.
For more information about Boston visit: www.theauschwitzexhibition.com
For more information about Charlotte visit: www.seeingauschwitz.com
