Choreographers travel to New York and Washington DC
Carisa and I traveled to Washington DC on July 15-18, 2019 to visit the United States Holocaust Museum. While there, we also took a train to New York to visit the Auschwitz exhibit on display at Museum for Jewish Heritage. Both exhibits were moving, heartbreaking, emotional, unforgettable, and hopeful. We both learned something we didn’t know. We each sat quietly for a long time afterwards just thinking and processing the information. It will take days, weeks, months to process everything we saw. We have been learning about the Holocaust for sometime now but somehow it is still difficult to grasp that people could do this to other people. There was so much deception. So many moving parts of the entire operation. It brings up the question again, how do we do it all justice in this work? How can we leave any of it out?
It was inspiring to hear the stories of the people who risked their lives to save others. Inspiring to hear the two survivors, Louis de Grott and Allan Firestone, during the First Person Series at the museum in DC. I am thankful that the museum added Daniel’s story so children could perhaps begin to understand what had happened on some level. I am thankful for the all the people who helped in the Liberation and their stories we heard in the American Witnesses exhibit. This experience tells me to continue on and build this work; But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life. That we must never forget. That history must not repeat itself; never again.
– Christine Bergeron
