Witness & Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust

Written and compiled by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Education Department. Facing History and Ourselves, Boston. Dr. Stephen Feinstein.

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself." - Jean Badrillard
From Epigraphs: Jean Baudrillard, The Evil Demons of Images, Sidney Publishers, 1988

"No one can become what he cannot find in his memories." - Jean Amery
From At the Mind's Limits: Contemplateions by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities, Bloomington Press, 1980

Educator's Resource Packet Contents

1. Letters to Educators
2. Exhibition Information, including additional educational resources available from DeCordova Museum
3. Exhibition Introduction
4. Artists' Biographies
5. Timeline of the Holocaust
   • 1933-1939
   • 1940-1945
6. Definition of the Holocaust
7. Holocaust Terms
8. Art Terms
9. Poetry Pages
   • From Dear Anne Frank by Marjorie Agosín
   • From The Death Mazurka by Charles Fishman
   • From I Promised I Would Tell by Sonia Schreiber Weitz
   • Poems of Children in Terezin, 1942 -1944
10. Short Story Page
11. Primary Source Pages
12. Pre-Visit Classroom Activities
13. Post-Visit Classroom Activities
14. Mission Statement for Facing History and Ourselves
15. Additional Resources Books and Websites