The exhibition draws on photographs from the Hanns Weltzel collections in the Liverpool University Library, supplemented by visual and documentary material from a range of European archives.
With Weltzel’s photos alongside official documents, the exhibition shows the systematic processes behind the removal, and ultimate murder, of the people in the pictures. The documents are evidence of the way in which everyday racism slid too easily into “scientific” racism and outright persecution, helped along by ordinary people for whom the “Gypsies” were unwelcome neighbours.
Public and private archives and the memories of survivors helped to identify the people in Weltzel’s photographs and provide information about what happened to them.
Since late 2017 it has been on display in several cities in Germany and the UK, as well as in Prague and at the memorial site in Auschwitz (where most of the subjects of the exhibition died).
The exhibition has been accompanied by events at which Eve and Jana have spoken, often accompanied by surviving members of the families portrayed. At each venue, workshops have been organised for schools, and specific groups from the local community or from among policy practitioners have been invited to discussions and seminars.
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