"The women of the Holocaust", exhibition in Granada

In February, 1945, the German city of Dresden suffered the hardest blow of his history. When scarcely two weeks were remaining for the capitulation of the Germany a Nazi, more than 100.000 dead persons left the bombs and they limited the city to ash in one of the most polemic episodes of the contest. In the center of that city, on the banks of the river Elba, the exhibition was exhibited for the first time You stain of light: to be a woman in the Holocaust, that, after ending up in Vienna, Memory of Andalusia has come to Granada thanks to the Cultural center.

The sample, which will remain opened until the next May 31 from Monday until Saturdays, is a fruit of the work of the Museum of the Holocaust (Yad Vasehm) of Jerusalem, that the Prince of Asturias of the Concodia was rewarded in 2007 with the Award. It is a question of the first time that shows itself in Spain this material related to the feminine testimony of the Jews murdered by the Nazi and that tackles the subject-matter of the woman across his strategies to survive.

Across 17 multimedia projections, the visitor submerges in the human dimension of a tragedy that knows to big features, but that is enlarged on having known small details, after the pain becomes personal. As there explains the director of the Museum Yad Vashem, Judith Inbar, police station of the sample, the women who were imprisoned in the concentration camps "they took the decision not to be victims and obtained it doing that every moment was important". Compromised with the group into which they had integrated, his decisions could affect other persons, what propitiated a few rules of behavior that were different from those of the men in the same circumstances." In the exhibition it can turn how they acted in questions as important as the femininity, the feeding, the friendship, the faith, the maternity, the love, the creativity, the care of the neighbor, the everyday life or the resistance", he added Unbar, for whom the women had "a special voice" inside that big human tragedy.

More than three million women died victims of the Nazism, as told Alice Ramos, director of the Institute of Studies of the Woman of the University of Granada, which has coordinated the assembly of the exhibition in Granada. "The women, with small actions full of courage, resisted to the men. The Holocaust is an important part of the women of Europe that we cannot forget", it pronounced itself.

Since the acquaintance as "final solution" was started by the intention of ending with the Jews, the women were an essential target of the destruction, given his procreadoras role. The exhibition, which revises this extermination, ready special attention to the happened in different concentration camps, especially to the two placed in Auschwitz, the biggest of the created ones by the Nazism, in the south of Poland. The field went so far as to turn in an extracted city of the hell, or taken to him. Between 1941 and 1942, he even had band to liven up the parties of the members of the CENTURIES. In 1943, under the supervision of an official, there went so far as to be content a feminine band which quality went off from the moment in which there took her charge the director and violinist Alma Rosé, who was a niece of Gustav Mahler and a virtuous certification. During the trip by the sample there can be listened to fund some of the pieces interpreted by Rosé, which was including in his repertoire fragments of operas, waltzes of the family Strauss, the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven or the Daydreams of Schumann. The last one was one of the favorite pieces of the doctor Mengele.