A new exhibition created by The National Holocaust Centre and Museum and the University of Nottingham, with additional funding from the Arts Council England, was launched with a press converence at South Hampstead Synagogue in London yesterday
Whilst The Eye As Witness is an excitingly creative use of technology to reconsider the past, its purpose is chillingly contemporary.
When you see an image or video posted on Twitter or Facebook today - of a victim of war or member of a particular minority group - ask yourself who recorded it and why. If pictures are worth a thousand words, then fake news is 1,000 times more sinister in photographic form.
As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 and the 75th anniversary since the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps were liberated, this exhibition invites critical thinking. It asks you to understand the visual cunning of the Nazis and how propaganda helped permeate and arguably legitimise anti-Jewish hate — and to think critically about the same propaganda techniques being used on social media today by the Hard Left and the Hard Right alike.
Images shape the way we remember history. Everyone has seen images of Nazi racial persecution and the Holocaust. But through whose eyes are we seeing this past?
The exhibition can be viewed at Lakeside Arts on University Park and will also be visiting a number of prominent sites including the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum in London. International venues including the Documentation Centre in Munich and Dachau Concentration Camp are also planned. Please visit the exhibiton website for more information.
You can also read what Holocaust survivor Martin Stern thought of the exhibition.
The exhibition has received a lot of publicity and you can read the following: Further information can also be found on the following website:
Posted on Friday 24th January 2020