HALT! REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST
April – October 2023 While serving on the faculty of Goddard College in 1980, G. Roy Levin received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities which resulted in a book containing interviews with documentary filmmakers. Through this research, he came upon the documentary Shoah directed by Claude Lanzmann.
PICTURES OF RESISTANCE: THE WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF JEWISH PARTISAN FAYE SCHULMAN
Jan. 9 – March 32, 2023 Born in Poland in 1924, Faye Schulman received her first camera from her brother when she was 13. That camera ultimately saved her life and allowed her to document Jewish partisan activity later. As a result, she is one of the only known Jewish partisan
THERE’S JUST US
July 18 – December 30, 2022 August 11 and 12, 2022, marked the five-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally that shook the quiet, central Virginia city of Charlottesville. The Virginia Holocaust Museum is honored and privileged to exhibit There’s Just Us, a photo series by Alec R. Hosterman
ALL THAT REMAINS: A HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT IN FIBER
April – June 2022 Created by award-winning mixed media and textile artist Leslie J. Klein, the exhibit consisted of conceptual art clothing, wall hangings, drawings, soft sculptures, and installation pieces. The exhibit addressed the historical events of the Holocaust in layers of meaning and imagery with the juxtaposition of fabric
FACES OF SURVIVAL
June 1–July 29, 2018 Some were hidden children, concealing their Jewish identity. Some were infants and toddlers whose families were forced to flee their homes. They came from all corners of Eastern and Western Europe. All had the normalcy of their childhoods replaced by fear, and often the horror of
HUMILITY: WORKS BY MOLLY ROBINSON
Nov. 2021 – March 2022 As a high school student, Molly Robinson was urged by her art teacher to make art motivated by deep self-reflection. After seeing examples of social conflict during trips to Kenya, Tanzania, and Togo, Robinson was inspired to create pieces that explored the impact of human
Violins of Hope
August 4 – October 24, 2021 Violins of Hope is a touring exhibition dedicated to initiating deeper, more meaningful conversations about tolerance and social justice while educating people about the horrors of the Holocaust. This is the first time that the exhibit has been in the Mid-Atlantic region of the
STATE OF DECEPTION
May 1 – December 30, 2019 The exhibition reveals how shortly after World War I, the Nazi Party began to transform itself from an obscure, extremist group into the largest political party in democratic Germany. Hitler early on recognized how propaganda, combined with the use of terror, could help his
TRAGEDY OF WAR: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
April 2019 During World War II 120,000 ethnic Japanese on the west coast, two-thirds of them American citizens, were forced into a series of camps to live under armed guard. Japanese-American confinement was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported by Congress and the Supreme Court. Authorities feared that
BLOOD IS THE SAME
Nov. 2018 – March 2019 Awer Bul arrived in Virginia as a refugee of the civil war in Sudan. In 2007, he won a grant while studying at Virginia Commonwealth University to return to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya to conduct art workshops for children who lived there. “Blood is
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Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Memorial Without Witness
On Display Now Through November 2024 In July 1987, Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., VHM's Senior Historian, walked among the ruins of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau…