The Castlehead High School in cooperation with Paisley Museum
Present the Exhibit
Neighbors Who Disappeared
At Paisley Museum
from 27th January to 27th March 2011
PRESS RELEASE
The reception will take place in the Paisley Museum on Tuesday, 1 st February, between 3-5pm
The Castlehead High School in cooperation with Paisley Museum
will be hosting "Neighbors who Disappeared", a traveling exhibit created by Czech youths to examine the fates of Jewish children and their families who vanished from Czech villages during World War II.
The exhibit consists of 20 mixed media panels through which the children bring to light the forgotten lives of local village inhabitants. Czech schoolchildren studied family records, archival materials, and interviewed local Holocaust survivors in conducting their research.
Originally conceived in 2000, the exhibit gives a voice to those who were murdered during the Holocaust, bringing the tragedies suffered by the Czech Jewish Settlement to light, on a highly personal level.
The exhibit will be on display in ……… during regular ……hours, from January 27, till March 27.
Opening Reception will be held at Paisley Museum in commemoration The International Holocaust Remembrance Day. All are invited to attend.
Neighbors Who Disappeared is a project of the Jewish Museum in Prague supported by the Forgotten Ones Civic Association. They are pleased to present it in the Glasgow.
Financial support: The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) Citizenship program, Czech Ministry of Educaion, Czech Ministry of Culture