Art by Julia Terwilliger
Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage
Art by Julia Terwilliger
Exhibit catalog by Rochelle G. Saidel.
This is a catalog for an art and history exhibit created by Rochelle G. Saidel and the Remember the Women Institute for the Florida Holocaust Museum, Saint Petersburg, FL, in 2001.
After showing in the Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, from February -September 2001, the exhibition traveled to the Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education in Cincinnati, the Holocaust Memorial Center of Farmington Hills, MI, and the Virginia Holocaust Museum.
The catalog was created for the exhibition curated and produced by Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel through the Remember the Women Institute. Entitled Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage – Art of Julia Terwilliger, the exhibit is centered around seven large panels with mixed media and photo transfer images of Ravensbrück women, created by Florida artist Julia Terwilliger. The artist also created a 10-foot memorial triangle and an “artifacts” installation. The original exhibit included rare artifacts by inmates of the camp, such as a handmade recipe book.
To complete the exhibit, Dr. Saidel created seventeen panels on the history and background of this women’s concentration camp. In addition, she organized fourteen panels of photographs and texts about individual victims that demonstrate the broad spectrum of women from at least 23 nations imprisoned in the camp. This catalog and unique exhibit on Ravensbrück are designed to foster an understanding of why and how women experienced the Holocaust differently from men.
Julia Terwilliger was an artist who taught at the University of Central Florida. After her untimely death at the age of 50 in 1998, her husband, Bert Alan Terwilliger donated her artwork to the Florida Holocaust Museum.
This exhibition is available for travel from the Florida Holocaust Museum, 55 South Fifth Street, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701.