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Closer: Portraits of Survival
Número del objetoM2017/015:001
TítuloCloser: Portraits of Survival
Creador Katherine Griffiths
DescripciónGeorge displays the concentration camp jacket he wore in Buchenwald, on which he changed the yellow triangle to red in gratitude to his Soviet liberators in May 1945. SJM COLLECTION M2004/025
George Grojnowski is one of the survivors photographed by Katherine Griffiths for the exhibition 'Closer: Portraits of Survival', sponsored by the JCA Szlamek and Ester Lipman Memorial Endowment Fund.
The survivor and the object are both witnesses to history and retainers of memory, embodiments of a traumatic past but also conduits to that past, vessels through which we can contemplate the profound and ongoing impact of the Holocaust.
In these photographs history and memory fuse seamlessly together. As the events of the Holocaust recede ever further into the past, it is the human as well as historical stories that the survivors and their objects convey that will emblazon this searing memory into the hearts and minds of succeeding generations. Through contemplating the stories of these individuals in tandem with the often humble, yet deeply significant objects they hold, the past is brought to bear in the present, compelling us to grapple with its meaning now and into the future.
George Grojnowski is one of the survivors photographed by Katherine Griffiths for the exhibition 'Closer: Portraits of Survival', sponsored by the JCA Szlamek and Ester Lipman Memorial Endowment Fund.
The survivor and the object are both witnesses to history and retainers of memory, embodiments of a traumatic past but also conduits to that past, vessels through which we can contemplate the profound and ongoing impact of the Holocaust.
In these photographs history and memory fuse seamlessly together. As the events of the Holocaust recede ever further into the past, it is the human as well as historical stories that the survivors and their objects convey that will emblazon this searing memory into the hearts and minds of succeeding generations. Through contemplating the stories of these individuals in tandem with the often humble, yet deeply significant objects they hold, the past is brought to bear in the present, compelling us to grapple with its meaning now and into the future.
Fecha 2016 - 2016
Temasurvivors, volunteers
Nombre del objetophotographs
Dimensiones
- width: 295.00 mm
height: 210.00 mm
Línea de créditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Katherine Griffiths