Auschwitz exhibition to be shown in New York
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
31.01.2019 08:30
An exhibition about the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz is scheduled to go on show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York later this year.
Entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp with the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free) sign.Photo: Jochen Zimmermann/Wikimedia Commons/License: CC Attribution 2.0 Generic
Entitled Auschwitz. Not so long ago. Not so far away, the display earlier had a successful run at Madrid’s Arte Canal Exhibition Centre, where it was extended twice and attracted more than 600,000 visitors.
The travelling exhibition is a joint project by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Poland, experts from other countries and Spanish company Musealia.
The show is made up of more than 700 objects, most of which come from the Auschwitz Memorial Museum in the southern Polish city of Oświęcim. Some 100 rare artifacts have been incorporated into the exhibition from the collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The exhibits include personal belongings of camp victims and of the Nazi Germans who ran the camp.
The exhibition traces the development of Nazi ideology and the transformation of Auschwitz into the world’s deadliest Holocaust site, where 1 million Jews, and tens of thousands of Polish political prisoners, Sinti and Roma, and Soviet POWs perished during World War II.
The Auschwitz. Not so long ago. Not so far away exhibition is due to open at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 8 and run until January 3, 2020.
(mk/gs)