The exhibition will be on display at the Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey.
Our local partner in Morristown is the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Saint Elizabeth University.
Risking one's own life to save another person is one of the most extraordinary acts of courage. The exhibition Between Life and Death. Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust pays tribute to those who, during the Second World War – despite the threat of imprisonment, deportation, or death – chose to help persecuted Jews.
The exhibition presents stories of rescuing Jews from thirteen European countries: Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy, and Estonia, highlighting the experiences of both rescuers and survivors. By placing each story within a broader historical context, it demonstrates that decisions to help, taken for example in Warsaw and in Paris, were fundamentally different in nature. One of the panels is dedicated to diplomats from Poland, Japan, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark, who were active in Germany, France, Hungary, Lithuania, and Switzerland.
This initiative is a collaborative project between ENRS, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Silent Heroes Memorial Centre. It was first presented at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in January 2018. Since then, it has been displayed in numerous locations across Europe and Japan, including Amsterdam, Bratislava, Vilnius, Budapest, Bucharest, Bern, Dresden, Osaka, Yokohama, Tsuruga, Gifu, Szczecin, Gdańsk, Strasbourg, Bad Ischl, Dublin and New York City.
