Vedem Underground is called ‘The Dead Poets Society of Terezin’ by the Jewish Journal
“The show is absolutely not to be missed.” — ArtsATL
MUSEUM EXHIBIT DATES
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, May – July 2016
Los Angeles Jewish Community Foundation & The BOX Gallery, January 2017
El Paso Holocaust Museum, March – June 2017
University of Texas at Austin, April – May 2017
Brenham Heritage Museum, Texas, June – Sept. 2017
Texas Historical Commission (four locations), 2017 – 2018
California State Capital Museum (every Jan. and May), permanent collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, June – August 2017
Czech Center Museum Houston, August – January 2018
Amarillo Central Library, January – March 2018
Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education, Feb. – June 2018
Texas A&M University, March – May 2018
Atlanta’s Breman Museum, October 2018 – March 2019
Dallas Love Field Airport, January – May 2019
Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center, Maitland, FL, Jan. – April 2020
Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Naples, FL, Nov. 2020 – March 2021
Highland Park Independent School District, Highland Park, TX, January 2022
“Vedem Underground is an exceptional look into the lives and resilience of a group of resourceful teenagers trying to hold on to adolescence during an unimaginably tragic time.”
– Ghila Sanders, Acting Executive Director, Breman Museum, Atlanta
“We have hundreds of thousands of young people coming through this museum, and this exhibit will resonate directly with all of them. Our museum speaks to empowering young people to stand up and find their voice, especially in the face of adversity, persecution and maltreatment.”
– Liebe Geft, Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance
VEDEM UNDERGROUND is an art exhibit that deconstructs and reinterprets the literary work of the teenage Jewish creators of the longest-running underground magazine in a Nazi camp. Using a combination of pop-art graphics, archival photographs and cartoons, and the prose and poetry of teenage boy prisoners in Czechoslovakia’s Terezin Ghetto, VEDEM UNDERGROUND breaks down the 83 weekly issues totaling the 800 pages of Vedem (“In The Lead” in Czech), then reconstructs them in the form of a contemporary magazine.
Through the exhibit, Vedem, which was produced from 1942-44, is recreated as the original ‘Zine (i.e. a handmade magazine), complete with “Masthead,” “Mission,” “Newsroom,” “Printing Press” and “Circulation” sections as well as panels dedicated to subject matter such as “Columns,” “Features,” “Humor” and “News and Editorial” panels. VEDEM UNDERGROUND enlarges the intimate scale of the original publication while mixing and matching works of art with poetry and prose to create a collage in which Vedem is reinterpreted as a work of rebellion and social commentary that remains as relevant today as it did more than 70 years ago.