The Evidence Room
The Evidence Room
On Display at The HC in 2025
Join us for the opening program on Sunday, January 26, to hear about the creation and meaning of this exhibit.
The Evidence Room is a large-scale installation of three architectural reconstructions and 65 plaster casts that force viewers to confront the full-scale reality of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Alluding to the architectural forensic evidence presented to The British High Court of Justice in 2000 in the Lipstadt trial, The Evidence Room features several fashioned evocations of evidence that the Court judged to be undeniable proof of atrocities committed at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II.
This immersive experience highlights the crucial role that architecture played during the Holocaust, combats decades of Holocaust denial, and helps us remember those who were murdered by the Nazi regime.
“It is a profound experience for all of us and, in design terms, a radical, unprecedented investigation into the possibility to represent something unrepresentable: the architectural evidence of a factory of death.”
- Robert Jan Van Pelt, scholar and exhibit designer
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