Holocaust Photography Exhibited in 2015

The Illinois Holocaust Musuem and Education Center in suburban Skokie is always considering new and varied ways to communicate the many complicated perspectives of one of the 20th Century’s defining attrocities. A new exhibition coming to the museum examines images captured by Soviet Jewish photojournalists. Although World War II is one of the most documented conflicts of that century, western audiences know very little about these photographers who captured some of the most riveting and powerful images of the war. These wartime photographers were the first liberators to bear witness with cameras to Nazi atrocities, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau. Photographers merged documentary photography with avant-garde sensibilities to create works that had a profound influence on 20th century art and beyond. Here art meets history. 

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust is curated by David Shneer and Lisa Tamiris Becker, and is organized by the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder. 

February 22 – September 7, 2015   www.ilholocaustmuseum.org