ART AT AUSCHWITZ
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is in possession of the largest collection of art related to the Auschwitz camp. This collection is unique on a world scale. The artworks created in conditions of extreme danger are an extraordinary document of history and time that still stir the emotions to this day. They enable one to discover the feelings and emotions, difficult to reconstruct today, that accompanied the inmates on a daily basis. It is because of this huge historical and emotional value that camp art is extremely precious and provides a universal message which can be understood by every recipient.
The Museum’s collection includes works that were produced officially in the camp, to the commission of the SS (including those produced for the Lagermuseum established by the Germans), ones made secretly and illegally, and post-war works of the former inmates that are their particular testimony and an attempt to deal with the trauma experienced in the camp.
