The Holocaust was a sad chapter in human history. Not so long ago. Beginning with Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933 and intensifying during World War II, it consisted of the persecution and annihilation of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
A project to exterminate a people, supported by bureaucratic systems. Roma, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Black people, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents were also persecuted for ethnic or national reasons.
But even in extremely adverse conditions, many managed to take refuge in other countries, others rebelled and took up arms to fight, and several simply managed to resist and survive.
The Holocaust - Darkness and Light exhibition, organized by the Museum of Tomorrow in partnership with the Holocaust Museum of Curitiba, invites reflection on the importance of coexistence and how we want to live with one another, today and tomorrow. It opens to the public on July 26th and will be on display in the Museum of Tomorrow's Time Gallery until October 15th.
Its goal is to reinforce the need for learning and remembering as fundamental actions so that the Holocaust can serve as a warning and a lesson for our own and future generations. By doing so, we can prevent and combat countless genocides and serious human rights violations that continue to occur in various parts of the world, including Brazil.
We need to promote coexistence and deal with differences so that we can move towards more plural tomorrows.