A former East German museum will exhibit artwork by Holocaust victims and survivors. For the first time, a museum in the former East Germany, the Dresden State Art Collections, will display works from Israel s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial alongside Dresden s own permanent collection. Martin Roth, director of the Dresden collection, said many of the artists whose works appear in the exhibition, scheduled to open in 2009, did not survive the Holocaust. Roth said he came up with the idea after visiting Yad Vashem and that the exhibit is meant to show the power of art in times of suffering and barbarity.
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