In Paris, London, Warsaw, Liberec, and Bergen-Belsen, between 1945 and 1948, the first exhibitions on Nazi atrocities appeared in museums. They were organized by Holocaust survivors and witnesses, and presented shocking photographs and documents. How did these exhibitions, created so soon after W.W. II, address the genocidal German master plan, the suffering and death of so many millions, the acts of resistance, and Europe’s torn cultures? This exhibition looks back at those early moments of reckoning. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945–48
Objects once owned by Oradour-sur-Glane massacre victims in the 1945 exhibition “Crimes hitlériens,” at the Grand Palais.
