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Echoes from the Ashes: A Voice Remains

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

—George Santayana​

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Photograph: Pyramid of Ashes
Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial
© 2025 Craig S. Collins

 

Echoes from the Ashes: A Voice Remains is a traveling photojournalism exhibition dedicated to preserving memory, confronting atrocity, and amplifying the enduring human voice that survives even in the darkest chapters of history.

 

Created from images captured at former concentration camps, Hartheim Castle, and the remnants of Jewish Ghettos, the exhibit offers a visual and narrative journey through sites where lives were shattered—and where Jewish communities and other persecuted groups endured unimaginable suffering. These locations, often quiet and still today, speak with a powerful resonance that cannot be ignored.

 

Each photograph is paired with two layers of storytelling:


Historical narrative that grounds the viewer in factual context, and Exhibitor perspective that reflects on the emotional and ethical weight of these places.


Together, they form a deeply human encounter with memory, loss, resilience, and responsibility.

Photograph: Light Among Darkness

Garage Yard, Mauthausen Memorial

© 2025 Craig S. Collins

 

“He who saves one life saves the  world entire.”

—Talmud

The photojournalism exhibit unfolds through 39–60 images, beginning with 17th-century Hartheim Castle and other pre-WWII sites. It then leads viewers into the lived realities of Jews in the ghettos, the stripping of their belongings, their arrival at concentration camps, and ultimately, death. The photographs are rendered in black and white, while memorials appear in color, creating a stark dialogue between past atrocity and present remembrance.

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