On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-1948
24 May to 23 November 2025
21 May 2025 | 11 am
Press Conference “On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-1948”
(24 May to 23 November 2025)
Ludwig Meidner, Trek of People, from the cycle Massacres in Poland, 1942-45, charcoal drawing, Jewish Museum Frankfurt
© Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, photo: Herbert Fischer
Pocket watch of a victim of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, Association Nationale des Familles des Martyrs d’Oradour-sur-Glane
© Association Nationale des Familles des Martyrs d’Oradour-sur-Glane, photo: Benoît Sadry
Objects from victims of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in the exhibition “Crimes hitlériens”, Grand Palais, Paris, 1945
© Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Centre des Archives diplomatiques, La Courneuve
View of the exhibition “Warszawa oskarża” (Warsaw Accuses)
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum in Warsaw), 1945, photo: Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
Fragment of the Adam Mickiewicza Monument by Cyprian Godebski from the year 1898, bronze, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature), Warsaw
© Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza, photo: Maciek Bociański
Visitors in front of a showcase in the exhibition “Martirologye un kamf / Martyrologia i walka” (Martyrology and Struggle), Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute), Warsaw, 1948
© PAP/Archive
Słowo Młodych magazine, No. 5, July 1941, Stowarzyszenie Żydowski Instytut Historyczny w Polsce (Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland), Warsaw (Permanent loan from Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute)
© Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland
Poster on the opening of “Památník nacistického barbarství” (Memorial to Nazi Barbarism), Liberec, 1946, Moravská galerie v Brně (Moravian Gallery in Brno)
© Moravian Gallery in Brno
Reconstruction of a cell from the Theresienstadt Gestapo prison in “Památník nacistického barbarství” (Memorial to Nazi Barbarism), Liberec, 1946
© Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích
Postcard with a view of the Roundhouse, used in 1947 for the exhibition “Undzer veg in der frayheyt” (Our Path to Freedom)
Niklas Krekeler, Berlin, photo: Deutsches Historisches Museum / Sebastian Ahlers
Walter Preisser, Sheet from a 12-part woodcut series, 1947, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Places of remembrance and memorial Düsseldorf)
© Mahn- und Gedenkstätte der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
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