TWO TEMPORARY
EXHIBITIONS AT THE TEREZÍN MEMORIAL
Terezin Memorial
With his large-format camera, he systematically walked through Terezín's cellars, attics, hidden spaces, as well as public areas, trying to record in his images everything that refers to the troubled past. The lines counting down the lost days, the names and years engraved in stone, the Stars of David and swastikas, or inscriptions such as "Christmas 1943", "Here they rested in peace and fear" refer to the desperate attempt to leave something behind, to give vent to their emotions. Each line, each letter bears the weight of the moment in which it was created. And Homol's photographs "preserve" this urgency and transmit it to us, the visitors.
Another exhibition is titled “Unbroken”. It is a documentary exhibition about the fate of members of the Czechoslovak army during the Second World War.
It presents the fate of the generals and officers of the pre-Munich Czechoslovak army who refused to accept surrender without a fight. It deals especially with those who were involved in the largest resistance organisation, the Defence of the Nation.
The exhibition describes the fate of individuals who at different times underwent imprisonment in many disciplinary prisons, jails, and concentration camps. All of those featured in the exhibition were prisoners of the police prison in the Small Fortress.
The exhibition documents their careers, their activities in the resistance and their subsequent imprisonment. The texts are supplemented by objects from the collection of the Terezín Memorial, other institutions and private collections.
Testimony of the Terezín Walls is an exhibition by Richard Homola (born 1966). He is an admirer of the tradition of classic large-format photography. His images are humble and documentary, and he is well aware that photography can convey the past better than most other artistic media. This awareness brought him to Terezín between 2013-2016, where he noticed texts, notes, images, or relatively large murals referring to life behind the ghetto walls and the suffering of the people during World War II.
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