Memoria [EN] No. 31 (04/2020) | Page 17

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Zdjęcia w artykule dzięki uprzejmości Muzeum Reina Sofia

In the 21st century travelling became widely accessible, and the history of the Second World War is available at Wikipedia just using a smartphone. In that case visiting the Holocaust memorials and the mass graves became as ordinary thing as visiting Acropolis in Athens or the Eiffel Tower visiting.

Does this depreciate memory? Unlikely. Is visiting Auschwitz enough to believe that the tragedy has really happened? Absolutely not.

The Holocaust is real, and ‘(Not) a Good Time for Love’ reminds of it by specific details of everyday life like clothes in some girl’s suitcase who ran fled from the Nazis to Palestine, like smell in a bunker for thirteen people, like hands that have aged 50 years in 5 due to hard work.

Today in self-isolation we continue to share ‘(Not) a Good Time for Love’ project online while the Jewish Museum in Moscow is temporarily closed. Love Stories of the Holocaust Survivors are still being told and voices of our heroes can be heard in this pause of our lives.