When: closing September 8, 2019
This somber display closes tomorrow, so if you want to see it, you'll need to hurry. It's contained inside the "What Absence is Made Of" show on the 2nd floor, so you'll need to walk through some nonsense to see it, I'm afraid. It's worth it, though, so make the effort.
It's a visual installation that presents the evidence collected to prove that Auschwitz was a mechanism for mass murder. This was not merely a camp to hold people against their will (although that would be bad enough); this was a place designed by architects to end people's lives in as efficient a way as possible.
The entire installation is white, which I found made it hard to understand the documents that line the room. What really made the piece real to me was the video at the end that explains the decisions the architects made to ensure as many people were killed in as short a time as possible.
Verdict: In a time when Holocaust denial is making a comeback, this is an important statement of facts.
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