Upcoming Exhibitions

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October–November 2003

Past Exhibitions

Herbst International Exhibition Hall
The Presidio, San Francisco
April 1 through May 15, 2001

This event featured the exhibitions:

SILENT VOICES SPEAK—REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST
Paintings by Barbara Shilo

and VISAS FOR LIFE—THE RIGHTEOUS DIPLOMATS
Photographic History Curated by Eric Saul

with a 10-LECTURE SERIES with presentations and performances by prominent scholars, Holocaust survivors, international activists, rescuers' descendants, actors and media personalities.

Edward Asner speaks to a full house

Highlights of the lecture series:

The Holocaust: Told and Untold Stories
Michael Berenbaum, Ph.D., Holocaust Historian
Mary Felstiner, Ph.D. Holocaust Historian
Anya Verkhousekaya, Russian Holocaust Oral Historian

Lessons in Courage and Vigilance: Taking a Stand
Anna Rosmus, Author/Researcher, subject of "The Nasty Girl"
Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. Economist, Political Scientist, and former government advisor who released "The Pentagon Papers"

Lessons of the Holocaust: Never Again
Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D. Holocaust Historian/Author who won a libel suit against David Irving, the British Holocaust denier

Barbara Shilo with Deborah Lipstadt

Making the Links: Anti-Semitism, Racism and Hate Crimes
Edward Asner, actor
Dorothy Ehrlich, Executive Director, ACLU
The Byrd Family, family of James Byrd, Jr. of Jasper, Texas

Confronting Genocide in Today's World
Dith Pran, Photojournalist, New York Times, subject of "The Killing Fields"
Jose Ramos Horta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Provisional Government of East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize 1996
Harry Wu, Chinese Dissident, Author and Human Rights Activist
Ventul Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama and Director of Centre of Tibetan Culture

"The annihilation of East Timor was planned out. Everywhere there were scenes of mass destruction, people subjected to a systematic campaign of rape and torture by the Indonesians." –Jose Ramos Horta, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of East Timor.

Jose Ramos Horta

"The communist government used thought reform—not gas chambers. One target was the death of the individual and the other target was the death of the spirit." –Harry Wu, Chinese dissident imprisoned by the Chinese government for 21 years.

Barbara Shilo's SILENT VOICES SPEAK—REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST has traveled widely throughout North America:

Sonoma State University Cotati, California
April 1, 2000—April 30, 2000

Jewish Community Federation of Richmond Richmond, Virginia
November 9, 2000—December 18, 2000

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Los Angeles, California
January 5, 2001—March 15, 2001

Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia Fairfax, Virginia
September 4, 2001—October 16, 2001

Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas
January 5, 2002—March 5, 2002

McAllen International Museum McAllen, Texas
March 9, 2002—May 26, 2002

Anne Frank, "A History for Today" Ft. Worth, Texas
October 1, 2002—November 30, 2002