European Jewish
Community Centre
A community setting
Twelve works were presented for just over a month in a smaller, more intimate setting than the exhibitions that followed.
The exhibition opened on 8 December 2023 with a presentation of the Cities of Lost Memory project. At the EJCC, the drawings shared the space with dinners, meetings and community gatherings.
That proximity mattered. People did not encounter the works only as a formal sequence on a wall; they sat beneath them, talked beside them and sometimes connected them directly to their own histories.
Twelve works
The EJCC display sheet preserves the exact twelve-work selection and its sequence. Because the surviving documentation does not reliably establish the object type for every framed work, the checklist gives the titles without assigning original or lithograph status.
When an image became someone’s memory
During one of the dinners, a group of Dutch visitors happened to be seated beneath the Arnhem drawing. An elderly woman explained that she had lived through the wartime famine and that part of her family had been on the other side of the bridge represented in the work.
The encounter was brief, but it captured something central to the project: historical images can suddenly become personal when the people looking at them carry part of that history themselves.
For a few minutes, the drawing stopped being an image of history and became the starting point for someone’s own memory.
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