Operation Finale | This Light of Ours |
The Maltz Museum is proud to create stunning world-class exhibitions that launch in Cleveland and travel the country and even the world. Now available are three exhibitions that have riveted thousands to date. Continue telling these important stories in your own venue.
Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann
OUR MOST POPULAR TRAVELING EXHIBITION!
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The head of the Nazis’ homicidal “Jewish Department” who zealously managed the transport of millions of innocent people to death camps vanished after World War II. Photographs, film and recently declassified spy artifacts reveal the dramatic secret history behind the daring abduction and globally broadcast trial of a principal perpetrator of the Final Solution. This world premiere exhibition is a co-production of Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Mossad – Israeli Secret Intelligence Service and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
- “It engages your intellect at the start and tears your heart out by the end.” – Cleveland Jewish News
- “The exhibit is constructed much like the story of Eichmann himself. Everything is in plain view but multiple twists and turns must be followed in order to understand the entire story.” –AXS
- “Viewers feel like an impassioned participant rather than a vested observer.” – Hadassah Magazine
PAST VENUES
- FEBRUARY 19 - JUNE 18, 2017 – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
- JULY 16 – DECEMBER 22, 2017 – Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York
- FEBRUARY 10, 2018 – JULY 15, 2018 – Florida Holocaust Museum
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 – MAY 19, 2019 – Holocaust Documentation & Education Center
- JUNE 22, 2019 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 – Holocaust Museum Houston
- OCTOBER 12, 2019 – JANUARY 5, 2020 – The National World War II Museum
- JANUARY 26, 2020 – Holocaust Memorial Center, Zekelman Family Campus
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
AN IMPORTANT STORY EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
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As relevant today as they were half a century ago, more than 150 black-and-white images chronicling the Southern Freedom Movement are featured in This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. The 4,000-square-foot multimedia exhibition features works by nine activist photographers who documented the clash between institutionalized discrimination and determined resistance by activists and volunteers. The Maltz Museum added videos, interactive features and material about racial division today. “This exhibition is very timely,” says Museum co-founder Milton Maltz, noting its relevance to recent shootings, riots, vigils and protests in Baltimore, Charleston, Cleveland, Dallas and Milwaukee. “Ordinary people risked everything to fight for equality in the segregated South of the 1960s. The question this exhibition asks is, 50 years later, who will take up the challenge to right inequities that continue to spark anger across this country? How can we heal this open wound of racial division in America?” Recognizing that racial divisions weren’t relegated to the South, This Light of Ours also includes content related to Northeast Ohio’s own turmoil and triumphs at this critical moment in American history.
This Light of Ours features photographers Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela and Tamio Wakayama. The photographic portion of the exhibition was organized by the Center for Documentary Expression and Art with major support provided by the Bruce W. Bastian Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Curator: Matt Herron; Historical Consultant: Charlie Cobb Jr.; Project Originators: Leslie Kelen and Steven Kasher. The films, design and exhibition experience were conceived and produced by the Maltz Museum.
