“Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and The Danish Exception”

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust presents Judy Glickman Lauder’s “Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception,” a remarkable exhibition of photographs chronicling the rescue of Danish Jews by both the government and ordinary citizens during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. The exhibit, whose photos are from a book of the same name, opens Nov. 4, 2019, and will run through Jan. 5, 2020.

Published on the 75th anniversary of the remarkable rescue of Danish Jews during the Nazi occupation of 1943, “Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception” (Aperture) features Lauder’s photographs over a 30-year span, documenting concentration camps and portraits of both survivors of the rescue and the brave men and women who risked their own lives to help deliver the Jews in danger east to Sweden.

“Beyond the Shadows” was critically acclaimed by the BBC and the New York Times, among others, and was praised by Sir Elton John, who said, “This is photography and storytelling for our times, about what hate leads to and how we can stand up to it. ‘Beyond the Shadows’ is powerful and revealing and sharply relevant to all of us who believe in the human family.”

Lauder’s book features texts by Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum and Judith S. Goldstein, recollections by Danish Jewish survivors, and a previously unpublished text by Elie Wiesel.

A fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, Lauder has captured the intensity of the death camps in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia in dark and expressive photographs telling of a world turned upside down. Her work has been displayed in museums and galleries around the world, including The Getty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Proceeds from the sale of books and prints will be donated to Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and KAVOD—Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors.

More information is available at http://lamoth.org/exhibitions/temporary-exhibits/shadows/.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first survivor-founded Holocaust museum in the United States, is a primary source institution that commemorates those who perished, honors those who survived, and houses the precious artifacts that miraculously weathered the Holocaust. Since 1961 the museum has provided free Holocaust education to students and visitors from across Los Angeles, the United States and the world, fulfilling the mission of the founding Holocaust survivors to commemorate, educate and inspire. The museum is open seven days a week, and admission is always free.