Related Exhibitions

Art of the Holocaust

Art of the Holocaust, Web page devoted to art of the Holocaust from University of South Florida. Complete from Nazi art through art by survivors and teaching guides.

The Last Expression, Major exhibition of art from the Concentration Camps curated by David Mickenberg from Northwestern University's Block Gallery. The site is an exceptional educational resource and includes full videotaped interviews with artists who survived the German camps and continued to paint.

Learning About the Holocaust Through Art

Learning About the Holocaust Through Art, An important new contribution to Holocaust education. This free website provides high-quality reproductions of art works produced during the Holocaust. It also includes biographies of the artists and histories of the ghettos and camps in which they were interned. Study resources and lesson plans support its use in the classroom and an interactive section enables users to choose and annotate works for their own online collection. The website is available in both English and Hebrew, with Russian and Spanish versions planned. The website has been jointly produced by World ORT (an international educational charity) and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (a major Holocaust museum in Israel).

The Legacy Project

The Legacy Project, Framing a dialogue in the global language of loss among works of creative art and scholarship is an unprecedented cultural event. Through it, The Legacy Project seeks a collective, retrospective reflection on the losses that constitute the legacy of the last century.

COEXISTENCE

COEXISTENCE, An outdoor exhibition by the Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, which has been shown in many European capitals, Jerusalem, Capetown, Miami, St. Petersburg and Boca Raton and showed in the Twin Cities in spring-summer 2004.

The theme of the exhibition is about coexistence/equality/fellowship and discursive issues confronting the current world underdoing big changes because of globalization. All of the images were chosen through an international competititon. Posters are available for the classroom.

COEXISTENCE Exhibition
Minneapolis: Resident input sought in developing community programs dealing with coexistence
Guidelines for Minnesota Coexistence Art Project for Schools (PDF - 50 KB)
Also check out our Coexistence Curriculum Model developed by Vicky Knickerbocker, CHGS Outreach Coordinator, Stephen Feinstein, CHGS Director and fellow educators.

German Propaganda Archive

German Propaganda Archive, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. A most complete examination of the use and misuse of art and the visual during the the Nazi period.

Yad Vashem Databases

For more ideas and resources on how to initiate a Names Recovery project, see our Community Outreach Guide
Resources geared specifically to educators, including a lesson plan