Re: Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs Of Henryk Ross. An exhibition underway at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. Ends June 24, 2018. Re: https://mjhnyc.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed/ I was fortunate to listen to the curator Judith Cohen talk last week about the photographs of Jewish life under the Nazi occupation. An exhibition is underway at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. Ends June 24, 2018. The collection will then travel to xxx, xxx The artifacts themselves are extraordinary, however the real value is in their content. That content is not obvious to see. Without the captions, the pictures are often ordinary, maybe little odd. Those images in the exhibition familiar to us today were taken for German propaganda. They were deliberately edited or altered to misinform. Some were staged. Surviving testimony details the lengths taken to compose these. The intent was, of course, to hide the abuse, or, more overtly, to dehumanize Jewish ...
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