Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust

January 2 – March 2, 2024

Exhibit panels

Commemoration is a process that involves witness, preservation, interpretation, and performance. This process calls upon human creativity, commitment, emotional connection, and contemporary context. Literature, music, and performance work together to open a window across space and time for generations to connect with one another. 

This ten-panel traveling exhibit and accompanying digital gallery guide from Kennesaw State University highlight the links along the chain of commemoration that connect the past and the present and generation to generation. While the panels focus on the words of writers who witnessed the Holocaust, the gallery guide includes biographies of the writers, sketches by the panel illustrators, information about musical and dramatic pieces adapted from the writers’ works, and interviews with composers, lyricists, performers, and producers. It also provides visitors with opportunities to access performance videos and share their perspectives.

This exhibit also features memorial projects by students at West Forsyth and Mount Tabor High Schools.