Susan Silas: Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003
September 8, 2009 – June 30, 2010

Reception: Thursday, October 22, 2009
RSVP and PHOTO ID Required; RSVP to kmoscowitz@huc.edu or (212) 824-2293

Susan Silas’s memorial testament to the Nazi forced death march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of the World War II retraces the 22-day-long march that began on April 13th, 1945 in order to evacuate Helmbrechts, a small satellite unit of the Flossenburg concentration camp before American troops arrived. In visually representing the 225 mile journey from Germany into occupied Czechoslovakia on the 53rd anniversary of the march, Silas, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, presents the dialectics between visibility and invisibility by uncovering the past for those who did not survive to tell their story. The images, contextualized by Silas’ commentary of her own experience, are paired with news clips from the same day in 1998, drawing a connection between witnessing to the past and the present.

Location: One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street), Manhattan
Subway: R/W to 8th St./NYU; 6 to Astor Place; A/C/E/B/D/F/V to W. 4th St.
Hours: Mondays through Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Selected Sundays (September 13, October 11, November 8, 22, December 13, January 10, 24, February 7, March 7, April 18, May 9) 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Admission: FREE. Photo ID required. www.huc.edu/museum/ny

Group Tours and Information: Katie Moscowitz, 212-824-2293: kmoscowitz@huc.edu