World Memory: "Memory of Auschwitz" exhibition of the Victory Museum (Moscow) opened at the UN Headquarters in New York

On January 21, 2020 "Memory of Auschwitz" exhibition of the Victory Museum was opened at the UN Headquarters in New York. The project, marking the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, illustrates stories of concentration camps prisoners of and presents a series of Zinovy Tolkachev’s drawings.

The exposition features unique historical materials from the Victory Museum collections, which demonstrate the prisoners’ work and tell about their fate. A separate section is devoted to the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops.

The New York residents will be also introduced to the graphics of the front-line artist Zinovy Tolkachev, who participated in the liberation of Majdanek and Auschwitz. The exposition contains 16 works dedicated to life in the camp.

The exhibition arranges photographs created as part of the “Lonka Project” (Israel). The authors set a goal to capture the former prisoners of concentration camps.

The project was provided with the assistance of the Russian and Israel diplomatic missions to the United Nations.