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The Holocaust Art Museum and Auditorium is a testimonial to the indomitable spirit of Jewish creativity. The collection comprises works of art created under the inconceivably adverse conditions of the Holocaust - in the forests, ghettos and camps, and a selection of objects created after the war by Holocaust survivors, and by artists for whom the Holocaust served as inspiration even though they themselves did not experience it.
The Art Museum building, including the auditorium, are dedicated to the Jewish resistance in France, and the adjacent garden is dedicated to the memory of Marian Cohen, a heroine of the Jewish French resistance. Both were constructed with the assistance of the friends of Yad Vashem in Israel and abroad, and with the support of the Eugenie Markowitz-Schreiber Foundation of Paris, and were inaugurated on March 4, 1982.
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