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‘Testimony’ presented for Holocaust Memorial day, Scotland

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‘Testimony’ is a story of Auschwitz and was produced by invitation from the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum at the time of the 60th Anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation. It was subsequently funded by the Scottish Executive to carry the stories of Scottish Holocaust Survivors and presented at several Holocaust Memorial Days with special guests including the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and First Ministers of Scotland.

Wanda Hutny, senior guide from Auschwitz-Birkenau talking to visiting students.
The exhibition was designed so that every viewpoint brought a different set of stories together. Here, the images from ‘March of the Living’ were juxtaposed with an image of graffiti on the London Underground from the 1980’s, antisemitism is still in our midst demonstrating the danger of complacency.
Testimony includes over 300 images with the aim of taking visitors as close as possible to the world of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The opening photograph starkly makes the point that it was not just Jews who were taken there but anyone who was seen as ‘different’ and those who the Nazis did not like.
Prime Minister Rt. Hon Gordon Brown being taken round the exhibition by Sitakumari and Wanda Hutny.
Wanda Hutny with survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and their descendants.
The Prime Minister is shown other images from Heartstone’s ‘Descendants of All Worlds’ assignments and exhibitions.

 

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