HOLOCAUST | HISTORY
VIRTUAL TIMELINE
HISTORICAL TIME LINE
The Holocaust history timeline will consist of photographs and captions ranging from 1933-1947. Images are sourced from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Broken down into clusters of time frames that consolidate and focus on key events and happenings.
1880s Special events
Pre-war 1933-39
During the war 1940-44
Post-war 1945-47
The timeline will be virtually accessible when the exhibition opens. Physically on display will be an installation mapping out the history and highlighting actual photographers of the time.
GLASS PLATES OF LUBIN
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Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Photographs of a Lost Jewish World will be featured in the project’s timeline. Some 2700 glass plate negatives, made by Abram Zylberberg between 1913 and 1939, were discovered in 2010 under a pile of rubble in an attic. These images capture everyday scenes of a vibrant Jewish community in Poland that was destroyed and irretrievably lost during World War II.
These straightforward photographs show Jewish life in the lively city, including political meetings, sports clubs, yeshiva teachers and their students as well as people at work or on holiday. The images include Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young lovers, workers, and everyday people.
They reveal the complexity of this world and also record the integration of Jews into this society during the interwar years even though Jews and Christians were legally prohibited from living in the same area. The Jews of Lublin numbered about 40,000 before the war, composing a third of the city’s population. Only about 200 lived there after the war, making this a collection of a world that is no more.
PHOTOGRAPHERS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED
Francisco Boix
Francesco Boix Campo, a Republican veteran and photographer of the Spanish Civil War, was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp where he worked in camp’s photo laboratory. His photographs were used as evidence in the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Faye Schulman
Faye Schulman’s courageous photographs record Jewish resistance in Poland to the Nazis by providing a first-person account about what it takes to confront authoritarian ultranationalism. Her work exemplifies the will to resist.
