dThe Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz
is a collaborative project between
the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and
Information Technology at Northwestern University

 

 

This interactive web project is made possible through the generosity of Judd and Frieda Weinberg.
Additional support has been received from Mrs. Beatrice Mayer, Ted and Cora Ginsberg,
David C. Ruttenberg, Howard Hirsch, Robert J. and Helen Piros,
the Office of the President, Northwestern University,
the Office of Vice President for Information Technology,
and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

This interactive Web Project is made possible through the generosity of Judd and Frieda Weinberg. Additional support has been received from Mrs. Beatrice Mayer and Ted and Cora Ginsberg.
Principal Investigator:
David Mickenberg
Director, Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
Curator:
Corinne Granof
Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
Designer and Site Architect:
Dennis Glenn
Manager, Advanced Media Production Studio
Northwestern University
Project Managers:

Robert Taylor
Director, Academic Technologies
Northwestern University

Gary Greenberg
Director, IT Planning and Development
Northwestern University

Database Architect :
William Parod Jr.
Humanities Research Computing Specialist
Academic Technologies, Northwestern University
Interface Consultant :
John Norstad
Systems Engineer, IT Research Technologies
Northwestern University
Faculty Technology Consultant :
Jerry Goldman
Professor, Political Science
Northwestern University
Original Still Photography:
Eileen H. Glenn
Dennis Glenn
Cinematography :

Dennis Glenn, Director
Jason Betke
William Petersen
Yuko Nagaki

Avid Editor :
Yuko Nagaki
For the Block Museum of Art:

Brooke Dierkhising
Program Assistant

Elliot Gage
Departmental Assistant

Mary Stewart
Assistant Director

Debora Wood
Assistant Curator

Zbigniew Banas
Interpretor and Translator

Jeremy Fox
Technical Support Specialist

Jane Friedman
Editor

For the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

Bret Werb
Musicologist

Jacek Nowakowski
Director of Collections

For the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
in Oświęcim:

Peter Hayes
Professor of History
Northwestern University

Detlef Hoffmann
Professor of Art
University of Oldenbourg

Sybil Milton
Independent Researcher and Scholar

Alina Skibińska
Independent Researcher

Eda Warren
Digital Media Consultant

For Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies:

Susan Weber
Director of Continuing Education

Susan Youdovin
 Curator of Education

For the Advanced Media Production Studio, Northwestern University
Student Consultant Leaders:

Eugene Huo

Student Consultants Northwestern University:

Bartek Wereda

Micah Schwalb

Fei Yeh

Anna Berman

Lori Berman

Lou Skriba

Lucas Hackett

Loriel Samaras

Andrew Swindler

Daniel Weaver

Tony Becker

Jon Ionita

Kay Wang

Avner Shalev
Chairman of the Directorate

Yehudit Inbar
Director, Museums Department

Yehudit Shendar
Senior Curator, Art Museum

Haviva Peled-Carmeli
Curator of Artifacts

Susan Fraiman
Assistant Curator, Art Museum

For Beit Lohamei Haghetaot
(Ghetto Fighters' House Museum), Israel:

Simcha Stein
Director

Pnina Rosenberg
Art Curator

John Shen
Alan Kendall

Zofia Stepien-Bator
Portrait of Mala Zimetbaum, 1943, drawing
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Stanislaw Gutkiewicz
Portrait of Adolf Šveca, 1942, drawing
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Franciszek Jazwiecki
Self Portrait, 1943, drawing
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Franciszek Jazwiecki
Portrait of Stanislaw Ledermann, 1943, drawing
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Franciszek Jazwiecki
Portrait of Nikolaja Putylina, 1944-45, drawing
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Anonymous
Portrait of Albert Frecke, 1944-45, painting
The collection of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Second Splash page art, from left to right:
Splash Page Photo Illustration:

The Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz is a production of the
Advaced Media Production Studio at Northwestern University

Jerzy Wroblewski
Director

Krystyna Oleksy
Vice Director

Teresa Swiebocka
Senior Curator of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Director of Publishing

Irena Szymanska
Director of Artifact Department

Kazimierz Smolen
Former Director of the Museum and President
of the International Auschwitz Committee

Krzysztof Antonczyk
Director of Information Technology Unit

Artur Misterek
Information Technology Specialist

Dennis Glenn
For Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority, Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem:
Special Thanks:

Yehuda Bacon

Guido Fackler

Hector Feliciano

Henry Friedlander

Thomas Geve

Bodhan Gorczynski

Jonathan Huener

Margaret Jablonski

Paul Jaskot

Daniel Kempin

Jan Komski

Urszula Koscielniak

Daniel Libeskind

LOT Polish Airlines

Sybil Milton

Lynn Nicholas

Maria Nowakowska

Pnina Rosenberg

Rebecca Rovit

Janina Siwek

Marceli Siwierski

Zofia Stephen-Bator

Jozef Szajna

Bret Werb

Krystyna Wolkonska
Consul
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Northwestern University