Holocaust Exhibit to Open

A 100-photograph exhibit of Jewish history in Nazi-occupied Europe will make its local debut tomorrow night, with a special preview for key civie leaders at the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum invited by the Memorial Committee for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs. The preview will feature a tribute to the people of Denmark for their rescue of thousands of Jewish lives during the Nazi occupation of World War, II.

The preview and tribute to the Danes will come on the night before the exhibit–“The Holocaust and The Resistance”–opens to the public on Friday for an 18-day run. Accepting a scroll from the Memorial Committee on behalf of the Danes will be Carlo Christensen, cultural counselor with the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Christensen took part in the Danish Resistance Movement during the Nazi occupation of Denmark from 1940 to 1945. He was cited in 1945 by then General Dwight Eisenhower for his brave conduct in the underground.

Benjamin S. Loewenstein, chairman of the Memorial Committee and president of the Jewish Community Relations Council, said the committee will open the exhibit with a tribute to the Danish people “because of their bravery in aiding thousands of Jews trapped by Nazi terrorism during this tragic period.” He added: “The Memorial. Committee felt it appropriate that as we bring this vivid Holocaust exhibition to Philadelphia, we note the Danish effort. It came at a time when the world’s conscience was quiet, with no small risk to those who dared defy the Nazi forces.”

The Holocaust exhibit has been brought to Philadelphia by the Memorial Committee under the co-sponsorship of the Civic Center Museum. It was prepared in Jerusalem largely from captured Nazi photographs by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Remembrance Authority. The pictures detail the history of Jewish resistance during the Nazi era, and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.