Holocaust in the 21 st Century

1. Holocaust in the 21st Century A Collection of Art and Photography What Do We Remember today? by Natalie R Smith

2. I had to ask… What do we remember today about the Holocaust? What do our children know? What are our beliefs, memories, interpretations? Have we been responsible remembering our history?

3. This is a very small and humble collection of photographs, art, and print juxtaposed next to quotes about the Holocaust. These quotes come from people today of different age groups (12-75 years), religions, nationalities, and beliefs. When asked about a certain topic or word associated with The Holocaust the following was said……

4. Holocaust:Bad, Sad, Horrible, Bad time in history, …when all the Jews were ruthlessly persecuted and killed, Hitler massacred the Jews, systematic killing, Tragic, genocide, survivor, inconceivable, brutal, death, stripes, horror, Jewish survival

5. Jews: The chosen people, captured, peaceful, equal, destroyed, victims, pure faith, rags to riches, targeted, uncomprehending, group of people originating from the middle east, sad, ethnic victims, race of people who were persecuted and almost wiped out by genocide in Europe, either people who believe in Judaism or those whose ancestry can be traced to Israel and the lands around it, unlucky, unfairly treated, better financially, hurt, extinct The Chimney That Chills by R.B.Kitaj and the Holocaust

6. Kindertransport: Children who were saved, trains, escape routes for Jews, depressing, transporting of kids, rouse, smell, saddest, transporting children to camps

7. Holocaust painting by Judith Dazzio Though it is freezing outside in the Warsaw Ghetto, this boy is trying to earn money for his family. His friend seems "lost." - no emotion left. It was painted in a rough, expressionistic way Shoa: Peaceful,“Holocaust” in Hebrew, Death, religious icon, everything,

8. Number of Concentration Camps: A lot, too many, 40, horrific, 5, 100, 5, easily a couple hundred, dozens, 70, 80, 12, 5

9. Israeli Druze artist's paintings holocaust ButaniaHalabi from Daliat El Carmel Israel The United States: Over political, slow, hero, savior, justifier, Liberator, late to the party, got into the war too late, Amazing, Complicit, strongly outspoken against yellow page journalism and didn’t take it seriously until after they knew about the death camps, neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, sat back too long, ignorant of the Holocaust, for abdication, helpful, blind to the Holocaust for many years, pathetic.

10. Death: Freedom from suffering, Everywhere, the end, inflicted upon all Jews who were found, death Camps, marches, multi-layered, dark, Comes to everybody, common, war, too much, innocent, horrific, gas chambers, ovens, over looked, inevitable, life, a lot, concentration camps, sad, end of life as we know it. Some of the skeleton-like human remains found by men of the Third Armored Division, U.S. First Army, at the German concentration camp at Nordhausen on April 25, 1945, where hundreds of "slave laborers" of various nationalities lay dead and dying.

11. The Final Solution: Gas, genocide, Jewish Extermination, rule of the world, disgusting, destroy Hitler, Life or death, risk, Holocaust, Hitler’s plan, Mein Kampf, death, death of all inferior humans, gas chamber, Propaganda, Kill Hitler, ideology, Hitler’s plan for racial dominance, being more humane, communicate more effectively, understanding oppression, negotiations, working out differences. Salvador Dali’s Paintings depicting the horrors of the Shoa and liberation

12. A U.S. soldier inspects thousands of gold wedding bands taken from Jews by the Germans and stashed in the Heilbronn Salt Mines, on May 3, 1945 in Germany Pogrom: Violent intolerance, Jewish persecution, a way to make people believe in the worst, sad, everything is destroyed, violence, suffering, bashing, scary, paramilitary, Stalin, Prejudice,

13. Stained glass at Auschwitz, 1977 Synagogue: Religion, peace Tranquility, disturbance, peaceful, holy place, Jewish, Star of David, helpless, Church, house of worship, home, shelter Jewish church, where Jewish people gather and pray, destroyed, death, Injustice, pain, oppression, dangerous in those times, Kristallnach, peaceful.

14. Entrance to Auschwitz Liberation: USA, gift of Allied Powers, liberating concentration camps, powerful, release Of all prisoners from concentration camps, thank God, freedom, end of suffering, hope, A little too late, the beginning, painful for people who no longer had homes or families to go back to, D-Day, when the Jews were set free, Nazi Germany’s surrender, better late than never, relief, Defeat of Nazi party, opening the camp gates, Poland, The Jews, France, salvation.

15. Irene Sendler 1910-2008. Rescued around 2,500 Jewish children.. She claimed no credit for her actions. “I could have done more. The regret will follow me to my death.” Survivor: Strong, shock, not enough, Lucky, resolve, miraculous, one who Survived the concentration camps, life, aware, A person who escaped or wasn’t killed, Jews, witness, appreciative, a changed Person, home, too few, thankful. Justice: No justice, hanged, punishment to those complicit in the Holocaust, Allied Powers tried, convicted and sentenced Nazi leaders, delayed, non-existent, death of Hitler, goal of war crime trials, hanged by the neck until dead, firing squad, capital punishment, trial, unfair, sought after, good, what is right, necessary, insufficient