(Jewish Group) The different roles of photography during the Nazi era
In times of rising antisemitism, and with the number of remaining Holocaust survivors rapidly dwindling, raising awareness about the horrors they went through remains one of humanity's essential responsibilities.
Museums equally face the task of finding new ways to keep the public interested in learning about the difficult facts.
"Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust" is an exhibition that manages to successfully tie in the past with the present. The Instagram generation, used to seeing well-curated self-optimization photos that are perfectly staged and digitally enhanced through filters, will discover through this exhibition that photography during the Nazi era was already used as a tool to manipulate the public opinion, but also served as essential documents of atrocities for later war crimes trials.
First shown at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, "Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust" has now left Israel for the first time and is currently presented at Berlin's Museum of Photography.
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