Upcoming Exhibits

  • July 5 – September 30, 2010

    Janusz Korczak

    Korczak
    Janusz Korczak was a principal for an orphanage, a doctor, a publisher of a children’s newspaper, as well as an author. Korczak was also an expert witness in the district court of minors. In this position, he always sided with the children. When World War II began he chose to live with the children under inhumane conditions. When the Germans rounded up the two hundred children he’d cared for, Korczak stayed with them during their “deportation” from the orphanage, on the trains, and to their (and his) death at Treblinka.


    This poignant exhibit provides an historic context and asks difficult questions about the Nazi’s decision to arrest and murder children. More important, it examines Korczak’s willingness to sacrifice his own life in order to provide comfort to the children he loved.

  • September 30 – December 30, 2010

    The Art of Charlotte Salomon

    Salomon was a young Jewish artist from Berlin. At a time when German universities limited Jewish enrollment to 1.5% of the student body, she succeeded in gaining admission to the Berlin Academy of Fine Art in 1936. She studied painting there for two years, even winning a prize which was later withdrawn “on racial grounds”. With the rise of the Third Reich her enrollment was annulled, and she joined with others who took refuge from the Nazis in the South of France. Between 1940 and 1942 she produced approximately 800 sheets of gouaches with texts. She was arrested in 1943 and was then transferred to Auschwitz where she died at age 26. Just before she was taken away, she wrapped her works in brown paper and gave them to a French friend, saying, “Take good care of them; they are my whole life”.

  • October 1 – October 10, 2010

    Under Vine and Fig Tree


    On loan from the Istanbul Center of Atlanta (courtesy of The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul, Turkey) this historical exhibition commemorates over 500 years of Jewish-Turkish history. Known in Turkish as the “500. Yil Vakfi Türk Musevileri Müzesi,” this collection of objects and images documents Jewish life in Turkey since the 15th century. It illuminates the special relationship between the Jewish community and the Turkish people that had its beginnings as Jews fled persecution from King Ferdinand of Spain and settled in the Ottoman Empire at the invitation of the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II.

  • January 1 – March 15, 2011

    Fighting the Fires of Hate

    On May 10, 1933, German university students launched an “Action Against the Un-German Spirit” targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Sigmund Freud. Americans quickly condemned the book burnings as antithetical to the democratic spirit. The exhibition Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings focuses on how the book burnings became a potent symbol during World War II in America’s battle against Nazism, and concludes by examining their continued impact on our public discourse.

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