The exhibition "Responsibility for Memory: The Role of Art in Holocaust Remembrance" highlights the importance of art for Holocaust remembrance today, through three generations of artists whose work reflects their experience of the Holocaust. At the heart of the exhibition is the work of Holocaust survivor and art educator, Yehuda Bacon.
In this interview, Mr. Jürgen Joseph Kaumk?tter, Director of the Center for Persecuted Arts and co-curator of the exhibition discusses the invaluable contribution of artists who experienced the Holocaust to Holocaust education and remembrance. He reflects on the powerful statement these artists made against Nazi dehumanization.
The exhibit is co-curated by the Center for Persecuted Arts and Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, with the collaboration of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation and MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow. The exhibition is sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office and supported by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations.