The Stevens Art Gallery will feature a photography exhibit titled \u201cA Town Known as Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a Jewish Community\u201d for the month of October.<\/p>\n
Fitting with the theme of this year\u2019s Harding read, \u201cThe Hiding Place,\u201d by Corrie Ten Boom, the traveling exhibit originates from the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2014 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
The exhibit contains 61 framed photographs and multiple written stories of Jewish families and is meant to educate the audience on how the town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim, Poland, looked and functioned like before, during and after it was renamed Auschwitz.<\/p>\n
Dr. John Keller, professor of art and gallery curator, emphasized that this is not an art exhibit, but history. While photography can be art, Keller said this exhibit\u2019s purpose is more geared toward documentation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis show is important because it is history. It is history we need to remember,\u201d Keller said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t just brought here because it was history, it was brought here because of Corrie Ten Boom\u2019s faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story of Ten Boom and her family\u2019s experience in the concentration camps is ultimately one of faith and forgiveness, according to Keller.<\/p>\n
Junior Morgan Taylor had the opportunity to visit the first and largest concentration camp, Dachau, during her free travel while attending Harding University in Greece. Taylor said that visiting on Easter Sunday gave the day even more sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt related so much to the fact that these Jews are holding onto something; they\u2019re holding onto the fact that somebody\u2019s going to save them,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cFor me, getting to sit there and know that the God that I serve has already overcome something so horrible as a Holocaust, through the hope that we have in him that gives it a different meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor was accompanied on the trip to Dachau by her friend, junior Madison Ramsey. Prior to their visit, Ramsey said that most of what she knew about the Holocaust came from movies.<\/p>\n
After seeing the sites up close, Ramsey isn\u2019t quite sure she can emotionally handle the exhibit.<\/p>\n
Keller, Taylor and Ramsey said that remembering this part of our history is still relevant today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an act of hatred, racism and division. I think it is so relevant still,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe have these sites like Dachau or Auschwitz that we have kept as the world and as a human group, and I think we keep them because we know that we need to be reminded of how easily we can be manipulated into performing these grotesque acts against each other. You cannot forget that. When we forget that, we\u2019re lost again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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