holocaust in conversation with Martin Doerry
january 31 - february 18, 2007

The deputy editor of the SPIEGEL magazine, Martin Doerry and the photographer Monika Zucht travelled through Europe and America in the recent past to talk to people who survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Buchenwald, who were sent to foreign parts of the world or hidden in Germany to survive the nazi regime.

Doerry’s publication „Nirgendwo und Überall zu Haus – At home everywhere and nowhere“ and the photographic exhibition of the same name in the house of photography developed through these encounters 24 well-known personalities like Imre Kertész, Heinz Berggruen, Elie Wiesel and Anita Laker-Wallfisch, were portrayed in sensitive photographs. They belong to the last representatives of a perishing world of Judaism. Soon there will only be historians and their descendants to report about what it means to have lived as a Jew in Nazi Germany.

At the representation of the book in the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin, the Bundestag vice president Wolfgang Thierse warned that „the danger of falling into oblivion grows“. „We need resources. And to let history become alive on the account of individual fates, seems right and appropriate to me at times of individualisation.“

Ralph Giordano, journalist and author will speak word of introduction on January 30 at the opening of the exhibition and Martin Doerry will be in dialog with the Auschwitz survivor Lucille Eichengreen.