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Robert Jan van Pelt is chief curator of the exhibition Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. Van Pelt, professor of cultural history in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, is known internationally as one of the leading authorities on the history and architecture of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1997–98, he presided over the team that developed the master plan to preserve the camp, and in 2000 he served as expert witness for the defense in the famous libel case instigated by the British historian and Holocaust denier David Irving. Born in Haarlem, Van Pelt has published several books on Auschwitz, including the award-winning Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (with Debórah Dwork) and The Case for Auschwitz. He co-curated the exhibition The Evidence Room, displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2016.
Starred Review"In 2001, the Museum of Jewish Heritage opened in
lower Manhattan, in sight of Ellis Island and the Statue of
Liberty. Now the third-largest Holocaust museum in the world, it
has devoted three of its floors to a major traveling exhibit.
Historian van Pelt (Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present) offers not only
a catalog of the exhibit but an authoritative history of the
transformation of the small Polish village named after the Aramaic
word for guests to a Nazi death camp where 1.1 million people were
killed. As visitors approach the exhibit, they are confronted by a
German National Railway freight car similar to the ones that
carried men, women, and children to the camps. They then walk
through hundreds of photographs, maps, architectural plans, works
of art, artifacts—ragged shoes, coats, dresses, prisoners’
uniforms, a trumpet played by a jazz musician—and even a
reconstruction of an Auschwitz barracks. The items come from the
museum’s collection as well as from Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau
State Museum and more than 20 other institutions and private
collections from around the world.
Whether readers have visited the Auschwitz museum or are
experiencing it here for the first time, this comprehensive yet
accessible work presents a sobering history. Highly recommended for
both public and academic libraries.
--Library Journal
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