Artworks - Virginia Holocaust Museum

BREAK GLASS: THE ART OF V.L. COX – A CONVERSATION TO END HATE

September 18, 2018

Sept. 28, 2018 – Feb. 24, 2019 Through her art, Cox aspires to spark conversation about civil rights and equality, while also exploring the persistence of hate and injustice in America today. Her work is often born in cathartic response to contemporary events and shaped from her own personal experiences

THE LAST SWISS HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

February 18, 2018

February 9–March 27, 2018 In 2017 Switzerland assumed the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. As part of their chairmanship, they developed a powerful portrait exhibition on the last Swiss Holocaust survivors. These survivors were not often Swiss citizens, but rather came to the country seeking refuge from other

MARGOT BLANK PAINTING

February 18, 2017

February, 1–September 18, 2017 A selection of artwork from artist and Holocaust survivor Margot Blank will be on display at the VHM. Blank, originally from Germany, was deported to two camps in France before escaping with the help of resistance groups. She spent the remainder of the war helping children

DEADLY MEDICINE

June 18, 2016

June, 6–October 2, 2016 From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of people viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that started with the

SURVIVOR PORTRAITS

September 18, 2015

September 2015–December 2015 The Virginia Holocaust Museum is displaying the Weinstein JCC photographic exhibit “The Holocaust Survivors Photo Project.” The exhibition consists of 26 large-scale portraits by photographer Dean Whitbeck of survivors who are currently living in Richmond, Virginia.

AUSCHWITZ/OSWIECIM

April 18, 2015

April 2015–April 2016 Auschwitz/Oswiecim is a temporary exhibit produced by the Virginia Holocaust Museum. Designed as a commemoration to local survivors who endured this notorious camp, it serves to illustrate its significance within Nazi ideology. The three camps that make up the Auschwitz complex represent Nazi policy in a microcosm.

PERPETRATORS

August 18, 2014

August 2014–October 2014 In his Perpetrators, Sid Chafetz, an artist and master printmaker who has dedicated his professional career to creating works of art of profound social significance, presents a series of portraits of what might be called “ordinary” who executed Hitler’s ghoulish plans.

THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN

May 18, 2014

May 2014 A retrospective exhibit on the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

PAINTINGS OF MARGOT DREYFUSS BLANK

January 18, 2014

January 2014–February 2014 The Virginia Holocaust Museum will host a premier exhibition of paintings by the late, local German-American Artist Margot Dreyfuss Blank in the Melvin Weinstein Gallery.

G. ROY LEVIN

August 18, 2013

August 2013 The Virginia Holocaust Museum is pleased to announce the showing of its first traveling exhibit featuring the Holocaust-themed art of G. Roy Levin.

A photo of Auschwitz with the words Memorial Without Witness printed over the photo

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