Auschwitz: A New Exhibition Dedicated to the Holocaust Opens

A new exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust opened Wednesday in Auschwitz, Poland.

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over 1 year ago

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Arts & Society

Topics

History

People

Adolf Hitler, Avner Shalev

Places

Poland, Auschwitz

Transcript

SHOTLIST: AUSCHWITZ, POLAND, JUNE 12, 2013 SOURCE: AFPTV SOUNDBITE 1 Avner Shalev (man), director of Yad Vashem and curator of the exhibition "Holocaust" at Auschwitz (English, 21 secs): "In Birkenau-Auschwitz, you can see the case, the real case, where the factory of death and murder was active. What we are telling here is that there is a larger story, a most comprehensive one, a total understanding of this phenomenon, unprecendented, a break in human continuity in the modern world." SOUNDBITE 2 Pawel Sawicki (man), from the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (Polish, 18 secs): "The visitors who come to see this exhibition will realize that Auschwitz was not an isolated island but that it was only part of a comprehensive program created by the Nazis in all occupied territories whose main purpose was the extermination of all the Jews at hand during the occupation. " - Entrance of former Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz in Poland - Avner Shalev, director of Yad Vashem and curator of the exhibition "Holocaust" at Auschwitz, shows the map of Europe - VAR of media: an important role to show what life was like for Jews in Europe before the Second World War - The room where drawings of child victims of the Holocaust were modeled in their original scale - A woman reads a book which contains the names of all the victims of the Shoah ----------------------------------------------