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SHOAH: the Permanent Exhibition in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

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Open your heart, visitor. And your mind. And your soul. As you walk through the exhibition "SHOAH" and are enveloped by the sights and sounds of the past, hear the voices of the victims, see the drawings of the children, touch the names of the murdered. Be this place's messenger. Take with you a message that only the dead can still give the living: that of remembrance.

Elie Wiesel

SHOAH: About the Permanent Exhibition in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

SHOAH: About the Permanent Exhibition in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over one million Jewish men, women and children and approximately 125,000 non-Jews were murdered by the German Nazis, has entered human consciousness as the representation of supreme human evil as well as...
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Elie Wiesel

Message from Elie Wiesel

Open your eyes, visitor, and gather your inner strength; what you will see here may put your mental sanity and moral quest in peril.You will see here all that cannot be seen anywhere else: the infinite ability of tormentors and also...
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Designing the Exhibition: the Challenges and the Solutions

Designing the Exhibition: the Challenges and the Solutions

Prof. Chanan de Lange is former Head of the Department of Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and, together with architect Tal de Lange, heads the prominent Studio de Lange that has been involved...
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Artist Michal Rovner carefully traces over an original drawing on a scale of 1:1

"Traces of Life": The World of the Children

Nazi ideology not only blamed the Jewish people for the world's troubles, but also targeted every single Jewish child for annihilation – the most extreme expression of genocide. When the New Permanent Exhibition in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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A Profound Ethical-Cultural Dimension of Holocaust Remembrance

A Profound Ethical-Cultural Dimension of Holocaust Remembrance

The World That WasDirectly adjoining the exhibition's entranceway, which displays the word Shoah and a definition of the term in English, Hebrew and Polish, is an opening bearing the words and melody of the prayer Ani Ma'amin...
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The Center for Reflection

The Center for Reflection

How did human beings become mass murderers during WWII and the Holocaust? Why did the Allies not bomb Auschwitz? Could a victim also be a perpetrator or bystander? Where was God during the Holocaust? What happened to the concepts of...
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