To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 on 27 January, artist Sara Davidmann will be in conversation with curator Katy Barron at a special event hosted by the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.
In 2018, Sara had visited an exhibition at the library about the International Tracing service. At the time, the artist was in the early stages of a three-year Philip Leverhulme Prize project and beginning to research her own family history following the discovery of a family photo-album assembled and carefully annotated by her aunt Susi. The photo-album revealed a family she had never known existed. Realising that many of these people did not reappear in the photographs taken after World War II, she began to search for traces of their lives. With the assistance of Elise Bath, now the ITS Archive Manager at the Library, over 130 pages of Nazi and official documents were uncovered revealing the fate of her family members. Sara used photography and video to make artworks responding to the material she discovered, and these artworks formed her book Mischling I and an exhibition My name is Sara curated by Katy Barron.
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