February 14 – May 25, 2025
During WWII countries, policies, and populations across Europe were complicit in aiding the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution’ plan for ridding the continent of Jews. While the world was aware of the Jewish plight, refusals to expand immigration quotas and antisemitism severely limited the options and odds of escape and survival. Denmark’s response served as an exception. The events and actions that saved roughly 95% of Danish Jewry will be brought to light through artifacts, personal accounts, and an anchoring photographic series, Resistance and Rescue.
Resistance and Rescue includes 37 photographs by Judy Glickman Lauder, who spent years using her camera to witness the sites, stories, and people who experienced the Holocaust. Glickman Lauder recounted her 1990s photography project:
"I was asked to go to Denmark to locate and photograph many Danish World War II rescuers and survivors and to record their stories visually. It was a privilege and honor having contact with these heroic, courageous, and modest human beings. "
Designed to highlight the choices available to governments to be upstanders in the face of prejudice and discrimination, this exhibit demonstrates the importance of governmental policy in the protection of its people. Additionally, it spotlights a history of allyship and advocacy for the Jewish people by non-Jews, and explore the power of photography to record and reveal historical truths.
Choices of Consequence also includes a selection of images from the Danish Rescue Museum archives, documents and artifacts from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and will highlight the narratives of specific Danish individuals and events.
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Organized and curated by Jewish Museum Milwaukee, this exhibition features the Resistance and Rescue series from the Florida Holocaust Museum collection and artifacts from the Museum of Danish America.
Images:
(top) Harbor, Gilleleje, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum
(carousel)
1. Jens Moller, Gilleleje, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum
2. Hidding Space, Church, Gilleleje, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum
3. Susse Pundik, Gilleleje, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum
4. Ole Trock-Hansen, Gilleleje, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum
(bottom) Interior, Synagogue, Copenhagen, 1992, black and white silver print by Judy Glickman Lauder; collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum