Auschwitz Exhibition Opened in SJRM

Time:2012/5/4 10:30:30        

  On the morning of April 19, 2012, the exhibition on Konzentrationslager Auschwitz -Nazi German Death Camp was opened in Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The content of the exhibition was provided by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and will be opened to visitors as a long-term display at the third floor of the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue.

  Mr. Du Jiong, Vice District Mayor of Hongkou District People’s Government, Mr. Krzysztof Stanislaw Smyk, Consul General of Poland in Shanghai and Mr. Miroslaw Obstarczyk, representative of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum addressed the opening ceremony. After the speeches, a piece of art work by Mr. Peter Max, a Shanghailander and now a famous artist in the United States, was unveiled and given by Peter’s representative as a gift to the museum.

  Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Nazi Germany led a campaign for the racial extermination of European Jewry, eventually killing more than six million Jews, among the victims around 1 million were killed In Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Auschwitz Concentration Camp was the biggest Nazi concentration camp and the center of the Holocaust. In the meantime, although Shanghai people were also suffering from the aggressions of war, they showed great generosity and accepted at least 23,000 Jewish refugees from Europe. Most of the refugees survived WWII.

  This exhibition is jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. It is the first example of such cooperation in this field between Poland and China. It is a significant cultural exchange between the two countries and can help the visitors to have a better understanding of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust in the Europe.

  It is believed that this exhibition, held at the former Ohel Moshe synagogue that had witnessed the history of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, will create a sharp contrast between the kindness and generosity of the Chinese people and the cruelty and inhumanity of the Nazis.

  To remember is to advance forward in a better way and to turn the pain and sufferings brought about by the Holocaust into wisdom and power. It is sincerely hoped that this exhibition can help people to join hands to create a peaceful and harmonious world for our future generations. (By Amy Liao)

  

  From Left to Right: Mr. Chen Jian (MC), Curator of Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, Mr. Miroslaw Obstarczyk, representative of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Mr. Wolfgang Roehr, Consul General of Germany in Shanghai, Mr. Krzysztof Stanislaw Smyk, Consul General of Poland in Shanghai, Mr. Du Jiong, Vice District Mayor of Hongkou District People’s Government, Mr. Jackie Eldan, Consul General of Israel in Shanghai, Mr. Laszlo Peter Kuti, Consul General of Hungary in Shanghai, and Mr. Wu Lin, a Chinese writer on Jewish subjects

  

  Cutting Ribbon for the Exhibition

  

  The staircase to the exhibition is designed to creat an impression of the railroad leading to the Auschwitz Camp

  

  Part of the Exhibition Boards and Video Materials

  

  Camp Strip Uniform

  

  Wooden Clogs

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