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Those Who Survived
Thirty portraits are presented in this exhibition. They are contemporary black-and-white photographs of former Nazi concentration camp prisoners taken, the authors say, "usually in the privacy of the homes of the people we spoke to, without any cosmetic retouching, make-up, posing, or complicated lighting."
The portraits are mounted on large white surfaces and accompanied by handwritten excerpts from manuscripts by the subjects. Lightened, enlarged fragments of the photographs serve as the background.
The portraits in the exhibition come from an album of the same title, published by Bellona in November 2002. While working on the album, the authors came across such special individuals as a Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss's barber, the only member of the Sonderkommando living in Poland, a little girl who was saved because she was on "Schindler's List," the only former prisoner of the Sobibór camp living in Poland, and Maria Borowska-Bayer, the heroine of Tadeusz Borowski's Farewell to Maria. Photographs of all these people can be seen at the Museum.
The exhibition will be presented in the Visitor Reception Center at the Auschwitz Museum from January 26 to March 31, 2003, after which it will be shown in other cities in Poland and Germany.
