JEWISH HERALD-VOICE: 'Between Darkness and Light' Exhibition To Open at HMH: March 21, 2001

While most nations complied with the Nazi’ demands to deport their Jewish citizens, the people of Denmark and Bulgaria managed to resist the Nazis and save the vast majority of their Jews.
        
An exhibition opening at Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH), 5401 Caroline at 7:330 pm, Thursday, Mar. 29, will explore the rescue of Denmark’s 7,500 Jews and Bulgaria’s 60,000 Jews.  Titled “Between Darkness and Light,” the exhibition features photographs by Judith Ellis Glickman and paintings and drawings by Karen Gunderson.
        
Both artists use intense darkness and illumination to create evocative images that convey the moral courage exhibited by individual rescuers.  Glickman reconstructs Denmark’s resistance and response to Nazi oppression through images of shorelines and seascapes, as well as hiding places and the rescuers and survivors themselves.
        
Through subtle manipulations of the photographic process, she captures the drama of the overnight rescue of the Danish Jews. One particularly stark image shows a stormy, night sea with the Nakkehoved Lighthouse glimmering in the distance.
        
The Danes had to slip their Jewish citizens past the famed lighthouse which the Nazis used as a lookout tower.  Her photographic series covering the Danish rescue is organized by Humanity in Action Inc.