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How Marc Chagall’s Daughter Smuggled His Artwork to the US

by Hakim Bishara September 23, 2019September 24, 2019

Letters penned by Marc Chagall reveal his immigration difficulties to New York during World War II and his concern for his daughter who followed him on a separate ship, carrying a large case of his works.

Posted inArt

A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 28, 2019August 30, 2019

The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.

Posted inArt

The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Make a Landmark Holocaust Film

by Josh Slater-Williams July 25, 2019November 4, 2019

Director Catherine Hébert talks to Hyperallergic about her new documentary Ziva Postec and the mystique of film editing.

Posted inNews

An Auschwitz Recreation at a Turkish Film Premiere Causes Uproar

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

Among the glamour of Cicero’s red carpet premiere were disturbing references to World War II concentration camps, including barking German shepherds, guards in SS uniforms, and children’s shoes piled on the floor.

Posted inHistory

The Disturbing Force of Early Color Photos of Nazi Camps

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 26, 2017

12 Nazi Concentration Camps is a body of work by James Friedman who, in the early ’80s, took the largely unprecedented step of documenting Nazi camps in color photography.

Posted inArt

Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants

by Christopher Snow Hopkins May 31, 2017June 1, 2017

An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.

Posted inArt

An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial

by Alicia Eler January 31, 2017January 31, 2017

In his chilling project “YOLOCAUST,” Shahak Shapira manipulates the original selfies at the memorial to include actual photos of Nazi crimes.

Posted inNews

US Museums Criticized for Mishandling Nazi Art Restitution Cases

by Jillian Steinhauer June 29, 2015June 30, 2015

A new report on the restitution of Holocaust-era artworks condemns a number of US museums for failing to resolve claims straightforwardly and instead resorting to legal maneuvers to have them dismissed.

Posted inPerformance

A Holocaust Survivor’s Story in Postmodern Dance

by Jillian Steinhauer June 22, 2015June 23, 2015

Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you’re not a Jew.

Posted inNews

Philanthropist and Jury Clash Over Design of Controversial Warsaw Memorial

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 8, 2015May 10, 2015

A controversial competition to build a monument in Warsaw to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust just got a little more controversial after the founder of the organization behind the project denounced the winning design.

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Five Finalists Compete to Build Controversial Holocaust Memorial in Warsaw

by Julia Friedman February 12, 2015May 7, 2015

Last week, the Remembrance and Future Foundation (RFF) announced the five finalists competing to design a controversial Warsaw monument to Poles who helped Jews during the German occupation of Poland from 1939–45.

Posted inArt

The Plausibility of a Jewish Nun in Postwar Poland

by Michael Blum May 16, 2014May 16, 2014

Whenever a film arrives on the scene that has something exceptional, eccentric, or anomalous about it, it’s always likely to arouse the most excited, hyperbolic, and oftentimes varied response from critics. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida seems to have accomplished just this.

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