Visages of Memory: Photographs by Laszlo Selly
In this exhibition, Visages of Memory, photographs of Holocaust survivors by Laszlo Selly, we remember the Holocaust so that we will not forget the atrocities of the Third Reich. In these photographs, we see the images of resilient, strong, courageous human beings who were able resist the Nazi regime. The Holocaust survivors tell their story, and we commemorate their strength, fortitude, and tenacity. We remember why we must keep fighting against all forms of hatred, racism, bigotry, and fascism.
Laszlo Selly began this project in 2019 and has photographed 35 survivors, including himself. He like many of these survivors share their harrowing stories of how they escaped the SS. How they carried on and made a new life for themselves in the United States.
Selly worked in collaboration with his colleague Bobbie Kaufman, who interviewed the survivors and wrote the bios that accompany the photographs. Selly and Kaufman continue the important work of documenting the stories of the Holocaust survivors in the tradition of David P. Boder, the psychology professor who in 1946 was the first individual to record the survivor’s stories (BBC).
The photographs include survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Each of them sharing their terrifying story of survival and escape from the Nazis and their eventual migration to the United States.
We bear witness to their stories and have a collective responsibility to never let a catastrophe like this ever happen again.
Colette Mello, Curator
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