The Forgotten History of the Holocaust
<p>McGarry is now a curator at Mia — the Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of European Art and Curator of European Paintings and Works on Paper — where she organized the current exhibition <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/envisioning-evil-the-nazi-drawings-by-mauricio-lasansky" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“Envisioning Evil: ‘The Nazi Drawings’ by Mauricio Lasanky,”</a> featuring the series of 33 drawings Lasansky made in response to the Holocaust. The son of Jewish immigrants in Argentina, Lasansky was an accomplished printmaker when he moved to the United States in 1943, and when World War II ended he was haunted by the images of Nazi death camps. But he didn’t begin “The Nazi Drawings” until 1961 — more than 20 years after the genocide began. As McGarry would learn, it wasn’t just Lasansky who needed time to reckon with the tragedy, and it didn’t always appear in the collective consciousness the way it did in her basement revelation.</p>
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