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Richard Heipp: Germanic Guilt Symbols

FHM 2nd Fl. North 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL , St. Petersburg

Richard Heipp’s photorealist paintings combine personal and cultural symbols of fear and security with images from historic photos used in the German race propaganda of the 1930s and 40s.

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Perpetrators: Lithographs by Sid Chafetz

FHM 3rd Fl. 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL , St. Petersburg, FL, United States

Sid Chafetz’s Perpetrators depicts the complicity of industrialists, businessmen, professionals, soldiers, churchmen, physicians, lawyers and bureaucrats who implemented and executed the Nazi’s diabolical schemes.

The Wall Speaks

FHM 2nd Fl. South 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL , St. Petersburg, FL, United States

The Wall Speaks – Voices of the Unheard is dedicated to Polish children and teenagers of World War II subjected to Nazi German and Soviet policies best summarized by the words: “We will make you less than human.”

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Hope: Artwork by Aithan Shapira

FHM 2nd Fl. South 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL , St. Petersburg, FL, United States

This exhibition focuses on the artist’s works on contemporary notions of hope. He has created a universal symbol from an abandoned life preserver—one cut from discarded cardboard, another painted in a fox trap, and hundreds made of concrete. For the artist, hope is the anchor of political and environmental campaigns as well as the aspiration to end wars.

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Holocaust by Bullets: Yahad – In Unum, 10 Years of Investigation

The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

The exhibition focuses on Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad - In Unum's research in the former Soviet Union, where they seek out eyewitnesses to the executions of Jews and Roma as they work toward identifying each execution site and mass grave.

Tempted, Mislead, Slaughtered – The Short Life of Hitler Youth, Paul B.

The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

Originally developed and shown in the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2004, the exhibition narrates the story of the nazification of the youth of Germany focusing on the life and death of Paul Bayer.

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

The photography exhibit from the Center for Documentary Arts presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work and voices of nine activist photographers – men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement.