This exhibition will give the viewer an opportunity to reflect on the different dimensions and perspectives of this history by highlighting the role of the perpetrators, the Nazis and their collaborators, in contrast to the images and stories of the victims and survivors. In looking at large scale photographs of survivors, they remind us that we all have choices and decisions to make to contribute to the world we live in. The Wannsee Conference, held on 20 January 1942 in Berlin, played a key role in creating the killing machinery of the Nazi state. The protocol of the Wannsee Conference, featured in the exhibition, reveals the plan to persecute and murder European Jewry. It is sponsored by Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations. The exhibit is on display through 28 February 2018.

Speakers at the exhibit opening:

Ms. Alison Smale, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications

H.E. Mr. Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations

Mr. David Harris, Chief Executive Officer of the American Jewish Committee

Dr. Hans-Christian Jasch, Director of the House of Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Site

Mr. Luigi Toscano, photographer