JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial’s latest exhibition explores the power of photography during World War II.
Archival footage shot by Auschwitz’s Soviet liberators is part of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial’s latest exhibition exploring the power of photography during World War II.
The 1,500 photographs and 13 films displayed just ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday come from various perspectives, victims and perpetrators alike, and look to offer today’s media-saturated visitors a new angle of looking at the horrors of the Holocaust.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, photo, a part of the “Flashes of Memory” exhibition of the photos from the Holocaust is seen at at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial’s latest exhibition explores the power of photography during World War II. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Photography, perhaps more than anything else, has come to shape our memory of the Holocaust. The “Flashes of Memory” exhibit also offers a glimpse behind the lens – showing the actual cameras used, the photographers who took the pictures and their various motivations.
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