Wed 10/27 @ 7PM
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage will be opening its newest special exhibit this week. Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. features more than 60 personal items that were carried to this country by survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides around the world, demonstrating what was meaningful to them and what parts of their old life they felt were significant enough to save reminders of: cookbooks, dolls, wedding announcements.
Each is displayed along with oversized photographs by documentarian Jim Lommasson and handwritten responses by the survivors or their families. They show how this specific group of immigrants blending their former lives with their new lives in America, and by extension suggest the immigrant pasts most of us have in our family tree. Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. was created by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s chief curator of collections and exhibitions Arielle Weininger and Lommasson.
The Maltz Museum will be hosting a virtual special exhibit launch event of the show, where Weininger and Lommasson will share the exhibition’s back story and how it was created. To register for the program go here.
maltzmuseum.org/events/stories-of-survival