The idea for the exhibition "The Art of Remembrance" came from Marian Turski, a Polish journalist and historian of Jewish origin. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Turski is chairman of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee. The artist Marian Ruzamski was deported to Auschwitz during the Second World War and later died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. His impressive portraits from Auschwitz have already been shown several times. Now his entire work is to be made accessible in Germany for the first time. It will show how the artist resisted destruction and how the power of art can be an expression of hope and resistance, even in the darkest times.

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On March 9, 2025, the Center for Persecuted Arts will open a cabinet exhibition in the literature collection on comics and graphic novels about the Holocaust, which have developed into an important medium of remembrance culture in recent years. The private collection presented in the exhibition does not claim to be complete, but presents different approaches: from contemporary witness reports and biographical graphic novels to fictional stories that process historical events in artistic form.