In Berlin, around XNUMX paintings and drawings created by Jewish artists during the Holocaust are on display at the German Historical Mueseum. The exhibition, “Art from the Holocaust”, includes work by inmates from various concentration camps
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Shoah and Auschwitz, gas chambers and crematory ovens, mass elimination, "the final solution to the Jewish problem". Man was capable of all this, of a system of death, of extermination of a people, of an anti-Semitic hatred, which, alas, resurfaces today and under a thousand shades of genocide on many other occasions.
This is why we hold on and try not to forget, in a "Remembrance day”In which we retrace what we saw beyond the gates that 27 January of the 1945, when the Allied Forces liberated Auschwitz from the Germans. And between exhibitions, debates, events this morning, how nice it would be if we talked about it again tomorrow, if the teachers in the first place, for example, knew what to tell in class, the numbers, the books, the witnesses, the images ...
In Berlin, for example, around XNUMX paintings and drawings created by Jewish artists during the Holocaust are now on display at the German Historical Mueseum. The exhibition, "Art from the Holocaust”, Includes work by inmates from various concentration camps, labor camps and ghettos and of the 50 artists present, 24 were killed by the Nazis.
These works testify to the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity and death. Some portray the atrocities that artists had to endure, while others portray idyllic scenes in an attempt to counter relentless "dehumanization" with an artistic escape into the realms of fantasy.
Today is a day for everyone to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Shoah and the millions of people killed by the Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Germana Carillo
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