The
@HolocaustMuseum will bring the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” to Washington, D.C. for the first time, presenting original artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and over 20 collections from around the world that have rarely been seen in the United States.
For the first time on its tour,
@auschwitzxhibit will be free to the public.
“Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” which was created by the Auschwitz Museum and the Spanish company
@Musealia_ headed by Luis Ferreiro, will be presented in Washington, D.C. from January 2027 through spring 2029, during the construction of the USHMM’s new permanent exhibition.
“Having our exhibition on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum marks the culmination of our excellent cooperation over the past several decades. We are grateful to our colleagues in Washington DC, under the excellent leadership of Sara Bloomfield. I am delighted that the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away’ will help the Museum to continue fulfilling their important mission while their new exhibition is under construction,” said the director of the Auschwitz Memorial, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński.
The curators of “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” are international experts: Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, and Dr. Paul Salmons, who worked closely with historians and curators from the Auschwitz Museum Research Center headed by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz.
The exhibition depicts the successive stages of the development of Nazi ideology and describes the transformation of Oświęcim, an ordinary Polish town where Nazi Germany established the largest concentration camp and extermination center during the occupation, where approximately one million Jews and tens of thousands of people of other nationalities were murdered.
The victims of Auschwitz also included Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and other groups persecuted by Nazi ideology, such as people with disabilities, asocials, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. Furthermore, the exhibition includes objects portraying the world of the perpetrators - the SS men who created and managed this largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
More:
auschwitz.org/en/museum/news…
(Photo: Timothy Hursley for USHMM)