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  Conspiracy of Goodness

  This exhibition tells the story of how an isolated Huguenot community in the Haute-Loire region, saved 3,500 Jews from Nazi Germany and the soldiers of Vichy France. Villagers of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the surrounding villages, joined together to conceal, rescue, and provide false documentation for Jews and French Resistance fighters, at great risk to their own lives. Click below to…

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  The Jacket from Dachau

  In July of 2015, the KHC was contacted by a vintage clothing dealer about a recent acquisition of a unique garment at an estate sale. In the back of a walk-in closet, amid a variety of old shirts and vintage dresses, hung a faded striped jacket. We now know Benzion Peresecki, a young Jewish man from Lithuania, wore this jacket…

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  Survivance & Sovereignty on Turtle Island

  The exhibition addresses the histories and present-day realities of the first people of this continent through contemporary Native American art. Turtle Island is the name given to North America by the Anishinabek, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and the Lenape—some of the Indigenous people of this region. The artists address survivance: a term that emphasizes both cultural survival and resistance in the…

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  Testimony Across The Disciplines: QCC Students Respond to Genocide through Art and Writing

  The 2014-15 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, Testimony across the Disciplines: Cultural and Artistic Responses to Genocide, was a student-centered, large-scale interdisciplinary pedagogy project that integrated Queensborough Community College’s (QCC) cultural and academic resources amongst 300 students, 20 faculty members, 10 academic disciplines and 5 colleges. The pedagogy project both…

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  Producing Silence: Hollywood, the Holocaust and the Jews

  This original illustrated exhibition discusses the impact of the Holocaust, the Nazi party and antisemitism, and their effect on the production and censorship of the American film industry. This exhibit is an attempt to capture and explore some of the tensions that Hollywood faced during the 1930-1942 years.

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  In the Land of the Shahs: Jewish Lives in Persia/Iran

  This exhibit documents the rich history of the Jews of Persia/Iran. It focuses extensively on World War II, the golden period under the last Shah, the Islamic revolution, and recent struggles of Jews with antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Produced with the involvement of the local Iranian/Persian community and scholars, it contains over 43 historic, archival, and modern day images that help to…

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  Unwelcomed Words: Nazi Anti-Jewish Street Signs

  In Germany, beginning in 1933, the Nazis implemented anti-Jewish instructions and practices in order to segregate the Jews. This exhibit focuses on the public signs that relentlessly degraded, harassed, offended, hurt, and perniciously contributed to the curtailment of Jewish life in Germany before the outbreak of World War II. 

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  The Train From Auschwitz: Journey From Shame to Self-Realization

  Artist David Gev’s mixed-media sculpture and video installation interprets his father’s journey in a livestock train cart to Auschwitz. His accounts of starvation, coldness, fear, exhaustion, and death are the genesis of Gev’s art. He imagines a colored landscape with ever-changing horizon lines seen through a slit in the wooden panels.

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  Their Brother’s Keepers: American Liberators of Nazi Death Camps

  Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau – these are only some of the camps the American army liberated. The bulk of the army consisted of 19 to 25 year-old men who had already experienced the ravages of war. But these young soldiers had neither heard of the concentration camps nor the horrors that were being committed inside their gates. Their memories would be forever marked…

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  Lost Voices: Greek Jews and the Holocaust

  The German Nazi forces entered Salonika in April 1941. Following two years of punishing measures directed at the 56,000 Jews in the city, such as the wearing of the Yellow Star and the robbing of all their belongings, the Jewish population was finally restricted to specific areas. On March 15, 1943, the first deportation took place. This exhibit focuses on how…

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  Cruel Correspondence: Antisemitic Postcards 1895-1930

  In the early 20th century, picture postcards were the most convenient form of short and quick communication. By studying these postcards, it is clear that antisemitism was not just a belief disseminated by political leaders, journalists, scholars and rabble-rousers; it was the general public that eagerly bought and mailed these hateful postcards.

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  Music In Hell

  Rough visual and audio representations, this exhibit examines the wide scope of the musical activities that existed before, during, and after the Holocaust: choirs, orchestras, and chamber groups that operated for months, and sometimes years, in the midst of the inferno. Whether a symbol of defiance, resistance or hope, music plays a transformative role in the lives of those who…

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