Opening:
Tuesday, 26. January 2016, 5.30 pm
German Resistance Memorial Center
Stauffenbergstrasse 13-14, 10785 Berlin, second floor, hall B
Nie pozwólcie umrzeć naszym obrazom –
Lasst unsere Bilder nicht sterben –
Don’t let our pictures die –
Felka Platek / Felix Nussbaum
To mark the worldwide commemoration ceremonies for the 71st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz and the 11th International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the
International Auschwitz Committee is cooperating with the German Resistance Memorial Center, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim/Auschwitz for the exhibition
Don’t let our pictures die
Felka Platek / Felix Nussbaum
- Diary texts: Christoph Heubner
- Drawings: Petra Rosemann
- Exhibition design: Karl Lehmann
Opening:
- Tuesday, 26. January 2016, 5.30 pm
- German Resistance Memorial Center
Stauffenbergstrasse 13-14, 10785 Berlin, second floor, hall B
- Words of welcome: Prof. Dr Johannes Tuchel
- Greetings:
Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor
Günter Saathoff, Chair Stiftung EVZ
Sebastian Techen, trainee at Volkswagen AG - Opening: Klaus Staeck, graphic designer
- Introduction: Christoph Heubner
Breathless and unequivocal, one of the last sentences of the artist Felix Nussbaum echoes sharply into our present and the future: ‘If I perish, don’t let my pictures die.’
In 1944, after years of flight, humiliation and persecution, Felix Nussbaum and his wife, the Polish-Jewish artist Felka Platek who came from Warsaw, were deported from their final hiding place in Brussels to Auschwitz, where all trace of them vanished.
Our exhibition, marking the 71st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz and the 11th International Holocaust Remembrance Day, focuses on the lives of these two artists as described by the Polish student Joanna Durkacz when she looked at their works: ‘The whole world should know about these two people and their works.’
We kindly invite you to the exhibition which will be opened by the graphic artist Klaus Staeck and the Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski (Warsaw).
