Exhibition "There was tall grass"

Exhibition “There was tall grass” about people affected by National Socialism. The exhibition was created with the support of the German Foundation “Memory, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ). The opening of the exhibition took place on December 15, 2020.The exhibition is available for viewing in Ukrainian.

The posters show photos and stories of 28 people who were in concentration camps, ghettos, forced labor in Hitler’s Germany or in Wehrmacht-occupied territory; people who suffered from the Roma genocide.

These tragic stories belong to people who still live among us, but about whose lives we know very little. Most of them had to keep quiet about the past for the rest of their lives – they were considered traitors in the Soviet Union. They could not get the dream education and job. Most of them suffered not only from Nazism but also from Stalinism.

The posters show photos and stories of 28 people who were in concentration camps, ghettos, forced labor in Hitler’s Germany or in Wehrmacht-occupied territory who suffered from the Roma genocide.

These tragic stories belong to people who still live among us, but about whose lives we know very little. Most of them had to keep quiet about the past for the rest of their lives – they were considered traitors in the Soviet Union. They could not get the dream education and job. Most of them suffered not only from Nazism but also from Stalinism.

The exhibition tries to focus on these people, our contemporaries, to enrich our lives with their life and historical experience, to ask the question: how do they live, what do they think about the past and the present and how important is their experience for us today?