The Holocaust Exhibition
Sandy and David Montague
If you have not yet been, do try to get to "The Holocaust Exhibition" at the Imperial War Museum,
The Exhibition took four years to create and traces the history of the Nazis' brutality towards the Jews. It depicts in detail the rise of anti-Semitism and the isolation of German Jews, using historical material which includes items from museums in Germany Poland and Ukraine.
Photographs, documents, newspapers (both English and German), artefacts, posters, plus contemporary film footage, tell the story of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews before and during the Second World War; of the mass exterminations and the resilience and luck which enabled a very few to survive.
Toys, diaries, photograph albums, story books, and remnants form a poignant tableau as well as showing individual efforts at survival.
The exhibition brings for the first time to a British audience a visible record of man's inhumanity to man, and re-iterates another reason why we must give thanks for the creation and continued existence of the State of Israel. Sadly, it also reminds us that similar gross acts of persecution are still taking place throughout the world. We can only hope and pray that younger generations visiting this exhibition will not only say ‘never again’, but turn those two words into deeds.