Were the House Still Standing
Maine Survivors and Liberators Remember the Holocaust
“Were the House Still Standing is a project inspired by words… The installation incorporates an innovative approach to storytelling through image, text, sound, and space…enabling us to construct a documentary and visually poetic experience in which individual testimony, collective memory, and history merge within a three dimensional format.”
Introduction
To preserve the oral testimonies of Holocaust survivors and liberators living in Maine, in 2005 HHRC commissioned the widely respected Maine sculptor, Robert Katz, to create an exhibition – the centerpiece of HHRC’s new home in the Michael Klahr Center.
Were the House Still Standing, an 80 minute multimedia installation developed in collaboration with sound designer Douglas Quin and videographer Matt Dibble, represents an extraordinary achievement in digital storytelling, combining four synchronized video streams, sixteen audio channels, complex theatrical lighting, and a portrait gallery by Maine photographer Jack Montgomery.
The complete, unedited video testimonies shown in Were the House Still Standing are available for viewing at HHRC.
Read the Katz & Quin Article
See the Survivors
Visit the Klahr Center