The exhibition, which gathers over 100 images, sketches and original testimonies of victims and perpetrators, will open its doors to the public on February 9th in Charlotte (NC).
The exhibition created by Musealia in collaboration with the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, and the participation of the United Nations and the UN, Seeing Auschwitz, lands in Charlotte at the Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery thanks to the support of the Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Educational Center as well as other committed donors.
“Seeing Auschwitz confronts the viewer with rare photographs captured by perpetrators, victims and liberators. The images provide unsettling perspective and stark evidence of mass murder, but also of the humanity of the people who perished there,” said the UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming.
The exhibition, originally conceived for the commemoration of the World Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, invites visitors to reflect on the true dimensions of the horrors committed by Nazi Germany through a thorough analysis of the scarce photographic evidence of the camp that has survived to the present day, as well as the process of the construction of the collective memory of Auschwitz.
“They look like faithful portraits of an instant, but these photographs are not neutral sources at all: we are looking at a piece of reality but seen from the Nazi perspective. It is necessary to stop and analyze them to really see what each image truly reveals, not only about the place and the moment, but also about their own authors, the people portrayed, and even about ourselves as viewers” said Paul Salmons, world’s leading educational expert on the Holocaust and Chief Curator of the exhibit.
After opening in NYC and traveling through Paris, Madrid, London, and very recently in South Africa — Johannesburg, Durban and Cape town — the exhibition is now landing in Charlotte this February for a limited time period.
Learn more about the exhibition at www.seeingauschwitz.com
