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Jenny Stolzenberg has a very personal connection to the story of the Holocaust, as her father was a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau camps.

'My father, who survived Dachau and Buchenwald, rarely talked to me about his experiences. Either he could not endure reliving them, or possibly he did not want to burden me with his story.'

Jenny Stolzenberg

After visiting Auschwitz, Stolzenberg felt compelled to reflect on her experiences creatively, and the 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 individuality and identity that was stolen from the victims of the genocide.

She chooses to arrange her shoes in a way that evokes the story of the individual who wore them, much in contrast to the great piles of shoes at Auschwitz, which reflect the overwhelmingly vast number of victims.