Digital version of the exhibition
Concept developer and curator
Bente Kahan
Production
The Bente Kahan Foundation
Norwegian adaptation
The Oslo Jewish Museum and the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies
Norwegian curator
Sixsides
Production coordinators
Agnieszka Imiela-Sikora and Marek Mielczarek
Collection and preparation work
Małgorzata Hućko, Beata Mazurek, Katarzyna Taczyńska, Anna Trojanowska, Malwina Tuchendler, Piotr Zadworny, and Jakob Berg Olsen
Historical consultant
Katarzyna Taczyńska
Texts adapted and translated into Norwegian by
Elisabeth Nordli
Literature translated into Norwegian by
Jan Erik Vold
Ellen Foyn Bruun
Elisabeth Nordli
Text production in Norway
The Jewish Museum in Oslo: Torill Torp-Holte, Dag Kopperud, and Mats Tangestuen
The Norwegian Holocaust Center: Guri Hjeltnes, Jakob Berg Olsen, and Carl Emil Vogt
Literature translated into English by
Joanna Trzeciak, Dahlia Pfeffer Luxemburg, Vivian Eden, David Keir Wright, Magdalena Kruk, and Damian Chojna
Graphic designer
Aleksandra Lubos-Zadroż (Vidifilm)
The multimedia exhibition “Lives Cut Short” was originally created by the Bente Kahan Foundation in Wrocław, Poland. The Norwegian version of the exhibition is a joint project of the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret) and the Oslo Jewish Museum.
Access to their art
The exhibition is on display in the Music Room and the Great Hall at the Norwegian Holocaust Centre. With the help of QR codes, visitors are able to access literature, images, and music created and performed by the artists featured in the exhibition.
Five artists from Norway are included in the exhibition: Ruth Maier, Ida Gorvitz Rottmann, Jacob Scharff, Marie Sachnowitz, and Jacob Maliniak.
The exhibition opens with the well known photograph taken by Georg W. Fosse, of a group of Norwegian Jews on the Akershus quay in Oslo on November 26, 1942, with the cargo vessel DS Donau in the background. Tutta Rolf performing “Månestrålen” (The Moonbeam) the song Marie Sachnowitz sang for the Jewish men, including her father and five brothers, aboard the DS Donau on their way to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Vestfold Museum has produced an introduction to the Sachnowitz family and the song “The Moonbeam”.
The exhibition is accessible during the opening hours of the Norwegian Holocaust Center
Photo: Trond Heggelund
Language and guided tours
The exhibition is in both Norwegian and English (++) and presents Jewish artists who were imprisoned and killed before and during the Second World War. Guiding is not necessary.