Katrin Göring-Eckardt, vice president of the german Bundestag, and
Noach Flug, pressident of the International Auschwitz Committee
© all Photos Boris Buchholz

22 January 2009

"Shoes, Bread ... Living on in Auschwitz": "A deeply impressive and moving exhibition"

In the presence of 120 guests the President of the International Auschwitz Committee, Noach Flug, and the Vice President of the German Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckhardt, opened the International Auschwitz Committee’s exhibition “Shoes, Bread ... Living on in Auschwitz”. The exhibition was organized by Christoph Heubner and Karl-Heinz Lehmann and will be showing in Berlin until July 2009 in cooperation with the German Resistance Memorial Center, the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and the International Youth Meeting Center Oswiecim/Auschwitz.

Speaking at the opening Julius Goldstein reminded the audience in his capacity as VW trainee about the involvement of young people from Volkswagen, their work to conserve the Auschwitz Memorial and their numerous conversations with survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp. In his recollections he also painted a portrait of his grandfather, Kurt Julius Goldstein, who survived Auschwitz and for many years shaped the work of the International Auschwitz Committee as its honorary president.

The vice president of the German Bundestag thanked the International Auschwitz Committee for its work and concluded: “This is a deeply impressive and moving exhibition.”

Julius Goldstein and his grandmother Margot Goldstein, widow of Kurt Julius Goldstein.

Dorota Flug, ambassador Yoram Ben-Zeev
and his wife.

The Israeli ambassador to Berlin, Yoram Ben-Zeev.

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