Speaking Memories — The Last Witneses of the Holocaust

Malmö Museums invites you to the grand opening of Speaking Memories — The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust on June 11, 2020 at 6:00 PM GMT+2 (9:00 AM PDT) at Slottsholmen, Malmö Museums

Participants include:

• KATRIN STJERNFELDT JAMMEH, Chairperson of the Municipal Board, City of Malmö
• PERNILLA CONDE HELLMAN, Director of Culture, City of Malmö
• LIZZIE SCHEJA, Exhibition promoter and CEO of the organization Jewish Culture in Sweden.
• REBECCA GELLERT, third generation survivor

Rebecca will read a greeting from Lea Gleitman, one of the two remaining survivors who are members of the association Holocaust Eyewitnesses in Malmö.

Snacks and drinks are served.

RSVP to samuel.thelin@malmo.se no later than Monday, June 8.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

• Due to covid-19 restrictions and infectious risk, please maintain a safe distance.
• Note! Please, bring your ID document.

At the entrance are security guards to check the names of the guest list.

About the Exhibit

Speaking Memories – The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust is an exhibition dedicated to those who were there. Those who have personal memories and experience from the Holocaust. Those who survived.

Presenting portraits and testimonies, the exhibition focuses on survivors who rebuilt their lives in Sweden after the Holocaust. It also presents an interactive installation – Dimensions in Testimony – where audience members can have conversations with pre-recorded video images of Holocaust survivors, Pinchas Gutter and Eva Schloss.

The exhibition provides access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, which contains 55,000 testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. In addition, authentic objects borrowed from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum will be on display. All of the above are presented for the first time in Sweden.

One part of the exhibition is dedicated to life in Sweden directly after the Holocaust, presenting personal stories and artifacts found in the camp Lovö, where survivors were placed upon their arrival to Sweden after World War II.

The portrait in the exhibition are photographed by Karl Gabor.

Speaking Memories is co-realized by The Swedish History Museum and Jewish Culture in Sweden in cooperation with USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, and Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The exhibit will be open to the public June 13, 2020, and will close mid-May 2021.