JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANY AND ESCAPE DESTINATION HONG KONG EXHIBITION
Visual Arts
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Co-organised by the German Consulate General Hong Kong, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, 2021 – Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland (2021JLID), Center for Persecuted Arts (Zentrum für verfolgte Künste) and The Hong Kong Heritage Project, the exhibition shows that Jewish communities have been present in Germany for over 1,700 years and also highlights the stories of Jewish refugees that came to Hong Kong from 1938 onwards.
Using the example of seven places – small and larger towns and regions – the exhibition provides an insight into Jewish life over the centuries. The Nazi takeover in 1933 then set in motion an unprecedented persecution that ended with the Holocaust and the almost complete destruction of Jewish life in Germany. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish families were forced to flee – and for some of them, Hong Kong became a place of refuge. The exhibition Seven Places in Germany was developed by the Center for Persecuted Arts in Solingen in 2020 with the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program.
The exhibition has an important addition: a brief history of the Jewish community in Hong Kong, which faced great challenges due to the flight of German and Austrian Jews, especially from 1938 onwards. For the first time, this history, closely linked to Hong Kong‘s fate in the 1930s and during WWII, is described, based on new research, by historian Amelia Allsop and images and documents from the archives of the Hong Kong Heritage Project.
Additionally, the mixed media installation QING by Simon Wachsmuth, inspired by the history of this Jewish family, will be shown in the Black Box Studio of the Goethe-Institut.
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