Jenny Stolzenberg has a very personal connection to the story of the Holocaust, as her father was a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau camps.
After visiting Auschwitz, Stolzenberg felt compelled to reflect on her experiences creatively, and the resulting piece 'Forgive and do not Forget' is the result of her life-long exploration to understand and come to terms with her family's history.
The shoes she created are accurate reproductions of those found at the concentration camp and show her passionate concern for the human individuality and identity, which was stolen from the victims of the genocide.
She chooses to arrange her shoes in a way which evokes the story of the individual who wore them, much in contrast to the way in which the great piles of shoes at Auschwitz reflects the overwhelmingly vast number of victims.