“Landscape Archive” exhibition by the Zapomniane Foundation at the Norway House

The exhibition “Landscape Archive” discusses uncommemorated burial sites of Holocaust victims located on Polish territory. The term Holocaust immediately evokes the image of extermination camps, such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. Meanwhile, the region of Central and Eastern Europe is heavily dotted with the forgotten graves of Jews murdered outside the camps. The victims lie in unmarked graves scattered in forests, roadside ditches and fields.

The Zapomniane Foundation is an organization aimed at locating, marking and commemorating them in accordance with Jewish religious law. So far, the Foundation has located about 300 unmarked burial sites of Holocaust victims in Poland, marked 100 of them, and permanently commemorated more than a dozen.

Research results conducted by the Zapomniane Foundation presented at the exhibit include photographs documenting commemorated burial sites. It also explores the landscape not only as a scenery where history happens, but also as a witness and participant of events, storing evidence that can be an important source of knowledge that can be uncovered by research.

Exhibition curator: Dr Aleksandra Janus
Artistic research: Aleksander Schwarz
Researchers, collaborators: Agnieszka Nieradko, Dr Sebastian Różycki, Dr Szymon Lenarczyk

Organised by the Polish Institute Brussels as part of the cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025.