The exhibit of the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts at United Nations Headquarters New York is part of the events of The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme to commemorate the victims and survivors of the November Pogrom (9–10 November 1938). The exhibit highlights the importance of art for Holocaust remembrance today, through the […]
Polyphony of the Holocaust
One quintessence of all these projects is the book Polyphony of the Holocaust. Voices on the Culture of Remembrance, edited by Maria Anna Potocka. In 2015, following the controversy surrounding the exhibition Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz, the MOCAK invited various people, including philosophers, historians, literary scholars, psychiatrists, artists, curators, and […]
The art of remembering
On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the German Bundestag continued its cooperation with the Center for Persecuted Arts, and both the MOCAK, represented by the curator Delfina Jałowik, and the German public broadcaster ARD now participated under the auspices of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) with the […]
The first joint exhibition by MOCAK and the Center for Persecuted Arts
The first joint exhibition of the MOCAK and the Center for Persecuted Arts was Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz, which took place in 2015. It picked up on and continued the inaugural exhibition of the Center for Persecuted Arts, which was shown in the German Bundestag in January 2015 on the […]
The public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk commits itself to the preservation of Auschwitz
On November 19, 1998, NDR editor Patricia Schlesinger reported in the magazine “Panorama” about the use of donations that ARD viewers had donated over several years to build and maintain the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial. „The fall of the Iron Curtain also opened paths leading back into the darkest chapter of German history. The Norddeutscher […]