22 August 2018

Liberal Judaism is supporting a new and compelling exhibition in the Lake District entitled ‘Auschwitz: A Place on Earth – The Auschwitz Album’.

The exhibition was put together by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem. It runs at the Lake District Holocaust Project (LDHP) in Windermere until the end of October.

It tells the background story to a photograph album that remains the only known visual documentation of the arrival of the transport of Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This exhibition is as close as a visitor can get to the original album, which remains protected in the strictest of conditions in Yad Vashem and is viewed as one of the key items in the documentation of Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Trevor Avery, director of Lake District Holocaust project, said: “This is a tremendous honour for the Lake District Holocaust Project to have been permitted to exhibit this exhibition for the first time in the UK.

“It is a compelling story about an album of photographs that are emotional beyond description. Men, women and children look out from these images and you know that that they do not know what is in store for them shortly after the photo was taken.”

Those involved in bringing this unique exhibition to the UK include Abigail Mann, daughter of Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Alan Mann.

[Picture courtesy of Yad Vashem]