Russia (bbabo.net), - The White Gallery of the Pobeda Culture and Leisure Center presents works by Novosibirsk artist and designer Elena Tretyakova "Non-Pioneer Camps" (graphics, installations). The art project is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

Novosibirsk is currently hosting a Week of Remembrance dedicated to the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust. Meetings of students with former juvenile prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos will be held in the city's schools. It was their memories, which they shared with Elena Tretyakova, that formed the basis of the artwork.

- For ten years I talked with representatives of the Novosibirsk public organization "Union of Former Juvenile Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps", tried to write everything down. This is how the book "Non-Pioneer Camps" appeared, and when the pandemic began, I wrote sixteen graphic works, - said Elena Tretyakova.

Conventionally, they are divided into parts - "Fear", "Powerlessness", "Hell" and "Paradise". Next to the drawings, there are excerpts from the memoirs of Novosibirsk residents who went through the horror of the Holocaust. On the wall are photographs from old albums, archives, depicting children and their parents in elegant dresses and suits even before their world was destroyed by war.

According to Svetlana Zhuravleva, director of the Atikva Jewish Cultural Charitable Foundation, the feature film Witnesses directed by Konstantin Fam was screened at the Pobeda Center on the evening of memory of the victims of the Holocaust and won prizes at international film festivals. The tape tells the story of the Holocaust on behalf of the mute witnesses of the era - a pair of women's shoes, a German shepherd, an old violin.

An important event was the premiere screening of the film version of the play "Leopoldstadt" based on a new play by Tom Stoppard. In the center of the story is the story of a large family of fabric merchant Herman Merz against the backdrop of chaos in Europe. Screenings of a new documentary film by Sergei Loznitsa "Babi Yar. Context" were also held. The picture, completely assembled from archival chronicles, recreates the historical background of the tragedy of September 29-30, 1941, when tens of thousands of Jews were shot in a ravine near Kiev. The world premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the European Film Academy Award.

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