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
- Letters to Educators
- Exhibition Information, including additional educational resources available from DeCordova Museum
- Exhibition Introduction
- Artists' Biographies
- Timeline of the Holocaust
- Definition of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Terms
- Art Terms
- Poetry Pages
- Short Story Page
- Primary Source Pages
- Pre-Visit Classroom Activities
- Post-Visit Classroom Activities
- Mission Statement for Facing History and Ourselves
- Additional Resources Books and Websites