{"id":23555,"date":"2015-03-12T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=23555"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T07:39:12","slug":"remembering-auschwitz-seventy-years-after-liberation-exhibition-of-mieczyslaw-koscielniak-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/23555","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Auschwitz: Seventy years after liberation &#8211; Exhibition of Mieczys\u0142aw Ko\u015bcielniak Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/page-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23556 alignright\" alt=\"page-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/page-0-610x862.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/page-0-610x862.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/page-0-2000x2829.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Waseda University\u2019s Cultural Affairs Division will host an exhibition of paintings by Mieczys\u0142aw Ko\u015bcielniak from March 24 to April 23.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Mieczys\u0142aw was a Polish painter, graphic designer, and draftsman who was arrested in 1941 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While imprisoned he made hundreds of paintings depicting the everyday life of prisoners, fully aware that he might be killed if found out by his captors. Mieczys\u0142aw\u2019s paintings not only depict the horrors prisoners experienced at the camp, but also the perseverance of individuals despite their hellish circumstances.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Mieczys\u0142aw\u2019s wife entrusted author and Waseda graduate Michiko Nomura, with nineteen of her husband\u2019s paintings, commenting that \u201cMy husband did not want the next generation to repeat the same mistakes.\u201d Nomura wants the youth of Japan to learn from Mieczys\u0142aw and his works before she returns them to Mieczys\u0142aw\u2019s homeland of Poland.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0The exhibition is open 10:00-18:00, Monday-Saturday, at the Okuma Memorial Tower on the Waseda campus (Nishi-waseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku). Admission is free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University\u2019s Cultural Affairs Division will host an exhibition of paintings by Mieczys\u0142aw Ko\u015bcielniak f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[185,167,172],"class_list":["post-23555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-arts-en","tag-culture-en","tag-history-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}