The exhibition is mounted on eight free-standing panels and divided into 16 display-boards. Richter’s works, as well as the exhibited original copies of announcements and occupation newspapers on which he drew, along with authors’ accounts and comments in Polish and English, have been placed in lightweight aluminium clip frames.
The presented layout of the exhibition does not come from the author. The works were thematically arranged by the curators of the exhibition, in terms of the narrative about places related to the genocide of Jews perpetrated by the German occupiers in the Lublin region.
In this context, the power of the presented collection is the fact that it illustrates most of the elements of this process, such as ghettoization, property plunder, forced labour, mass executions and transports to extermination camps.
The exhibition “Drawings on the Scraps of Life”, along with the accompanying catalogue, is available for visitors to view in the building of the Visitors' Service Centre of the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin until March 2018.
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