Arbeit Macht Frei/Work makes who free?

work makes who free?

 

Is there a moral responsibility to engage in social and political issues?

what is the relationship between racism and anti-Semitism?

This multimedia installation examines issues of race, class, and oppression through an exploration of the connections between the Nazi slave labor campaign and American slavery. The work also looks at the way unjust systems are enforced by tyranny and result in benefit only to those people “at the top of the pyramid”

the welded sign recreates the sign on the gate to Auschwitz: the welded sign is help up by two wooden columns forms, which refer to the Auschwitz on the right and to a southern plantation to the left. surrounding the center images are painting that describe the treatment of slave laborers in Nazi camps and of African Americans in the Southern plantation system.

Judy Chicago, The Holocaust Project, 1995, pg. 17.

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