opening SEPTEMBER 18

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will open its inaugural exhibition in the Rita Lowenstein Gallery, Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust. Photographs by Martin Schoeller.

This exhibition features 75 photographs of Holocaust survivors created to mark the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. Photographer Martin Schoeller’s striking and honest portraits will be on view alongside a short film documenting the process, as well as biographies of and quotes from the sitters.

Martin Schoeller (b. 1968, Germany) is one of the world’s most prominent contemporary portrait photographers. His signature style of extreme close-up portraiture has been utilized across his career, whether his subject is a celebrity or a Holocaust survivor, encouraging the viewer to draw comparisons “between his subjects, challenging a viewer’s existing notions of celebrity, value, and honesty.” Here, a community takes shape from individual stories.

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now ON VIEW

The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do tells the history of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust through personal stories. Two such examples on view in the exhibition are below.

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Ponar’s Surviving Objects

The memory of the original owners of these five objects from Ponar were kept alive by their second owners, and now, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

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Delbert Cooper: “It’s the truth as I saw it with my own eyes”

Liberating soldier Delbert Cooper wrote home about his experiences at Gunskirchen in Austria. He waded through the muddy camp that day in these brown lace-up combat boots.

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watch: STORIES FROM THE EXHIBITION

Shmuel Stern’s Mismatched Tefillin

Click here or on the image above to learn about Shmuel Stern and the set of tefillin that he found, traded for, hid, and shared while at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

ASK the collections & exhibitions team

Question:
How is the range of the Jewish diaspora represented in the Museum’s Permanent Collection?

Answer:
The Permanent Collection includes objects created all over the world – from a ketubbah (marriage contract) from Morocco to a yellow star from Nazi Germany to a birth amulet from Greece to a newspaper advertisement lobbying for the rescue of Jews from New York City. There are objects from over 35 countries currently on view in the Museum’s new core exhibition, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do.

For more information about the Permanent Collection, please contact collections@mjhnyc.org.

Interested in donating objects related to your family's experience during the Holocaust? Click here to learn more and begin the process.