Future OJM Exhibits

Oct. 2, 2008 - Jan. 4, 2009

Charlotte Salomon --
Life or Theater?

Charlotte Salomon, The Wedding, gouache, c. 1940.
Courtesy Joods Historisch Museum.

Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and grew up in an assimilated Jewish family as the daughter of a surgeon and a singer. The events of 1933 changed the family's situation drastically and Charlotte escaped in 1939 to her grandparents' estate in the South of France. The Gestapo arrested her there in 1943 and deported her to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. Before her arrest she gave her complete work to a friend, reminding him: "Please keep this safe. This is my entire life!" The exhibit, co-sponsored with the German-American Society, includes 22 reproduction gouaches painted between 1940 and 1942. Watch for further details about accompanying programs including a concert, a film and a lecture.