Muzeum dla dorosłych. Nowa wystawa w Miejscu Pamięci Cichych Bohaterów w Berlinie
Adult museum. New exhibition at the Memorial to Silent Heroes in Berlin

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the permanent exhibition Silent Heroes. Resistance to the Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933–1945 opened at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin in October 2021. There have already been several other temporary exhibitions showing the issue of the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in a broader European perspective. The Berlin exhibition, however, is the first permanent museum display of this kind. Moreover, it presents the phenomenon in a much more in-depth and extensive way than previous exhibitions. While relatively simple in terms of design, the exhibition has a very thoughtful and interesting structure. Instead of presenting cases of Jewish rescue country by country, the curators strived to systematize the phenomenon, which allows problematizing and historicizing the topic. By presenting both, Jews and non-Jews as equal protagonists of the events, the exhibition also breaks with the stereotypical divide between passive Jewish victims and active non-Jewish helpers.

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