In the organizer's words:
Today, Auschwitz symbolizes the National Socialist mass murder more than almost any other place. In public perception, this history is often concentrated on the areas of the former camp grounds that are now accessible as a memorial site. At the same time, Auschwitz was a widely ramified camp complex in which murder, forced labor, industrial production and logistics were inextricably linked. Tens of thousands of prisoners were exploited to the point of complete exhaustion in subcamps, industrial and armaments factories. Many did not survive this work.
Numerous sites of this system were located outside the present museum grounds: Coal mines such as Jawischowitz, industrial and labor camps such as Monowitz or agricultural experimental farms such as Raisko. They were an integral part of the camp complex, but today they are largely unknown, built over or only recognizable as inconspicuous landscapes.
The exhibition "Auschwitz, Footnotes" focuses on these little-known places in and around Auschwitz. The photographs by Sven Ellerbrock show their present-day appearance and reveal how extensively forced labor, infrastructure and extermination were intertwined in the region. At the same time, the exhibition poses the question of how it is possible to remember places where hardly any visible traces remain.
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Free admission to the special exhibition.
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