Letters to Afar Exhibition Opens

On October 21, 2014, Letters to Afar, an exhibition commissioned by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 2013, opened at the Museum of the City of New York. This unique multimedia installation by award-winning artists Péter Forgács and The Klezmatics is based on a YIVO collection of home movies that were digitized with support from the Righteous Persons Foundation in 2006.

The exhibition will be on view through March 22, 2015.

Watch more videos of the event.
Read an article about the exhibition in the New York Times.
See a Facebook album of pictures of the exhibition opening.
Attend public programs related to the exhibition:

• Creating History: Can We Tell the Past? (October 30)
• The Alchemist: A Péter Forgács Retrospective (November 2)
• New Narratives out of Old Film: A Conversation with Péter Forgács and Alan Berliner (November 4)
• Coming of Age in Poland: Jewish Life Stories from the 1930s (December 3)