The former royal museum in the city of Dresden in eastern Germany will host an exhibition of 12,000 works of art created by the inmates of Nazi concentration camps.
The exhibition, scheduled for 2009, will be organised together with the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. It will include art from the state collections of Dresden, and may also travel to Israel, the museum’s director-general Martin Roth told European Jewish Press.
"It will offer a different perspective on the Holocaust and illuminate the role of art in this human tragedy," Roth said. "It will put light on how men and women in the biggest distress tried to give themselves courage through art and culture."
The exhibition, scheduled for 2009, will be organised together with the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. It will include art from the state collections of Dresden, and may also travel to Israel, the museum’s director-general Martin Roth told European Jewish Press.
"It will offer a different perspective on the Holocaust and illuminate the role of art in this human tragedy," Roth said. "It will put light on how men and women in the biggest distress tried to give themselves courage through art and culture."