Photos from the Holocaust only capture the moment of the crime, not the abject fear that led up to it. This exhibition attempts to provide a glimpse into the horror, that we never forget that the atrocities were not just carried out by the Nazis but by their neighbors and permitted by the overwhelming majority that remained silent. Today, we’re again seeing what happens when inhumanity is normalized.
Hitler Youth humiliate Jews, forcing them to scrub streets. Vienna, 1938.
A synagogue in Oberramstadt in Germany burns. c. November 10, 1938.
Jews who have died during deportation lie dumped on the ground in Iaiși, Romania, 1941.
Jews are rounded in Kovno, Lithuania. c. June or July 1941.
A Jewish woman is dragged to her end. Lwów, Poland, July 1, 1941.
The same is done to a Jewish man. Riga, Latvia. c. July 1941.
All that remained of Jews slaughtered at Babiy Yar is stolen. Ukrainian SSR. c. September 29—October 1, 1941.
Men, women, and children are herded into a train to Treblinka in Siedlce, Poland. c. August 1942.
The 42 Jews massacred at the behest of a blood libel in Kielce, Poland, are buried. July 5, 1946.
