The Goodwill Fund and the Lithuanian Jewish Community are pleased to invite you to the opening of an exhibit of photographs by Irena Giedraitienė called “Echoes of Memory.” The exhibit and accompanying photo album contain portraits from Lithuanian and foreign ghettos and concentration camps and the photo album contains a retrospective of Giedraitienė’s works.
The exhibit and opening are dedicated to honoring and commemorating members of the Union of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Victims. The opening ceremony is to include speakers retelling their stories of dramatic survival.
“I wanted to record those who survived the ghettos and concentration camps as quickly as possible while we are still alive. I hope this exhibit and album will honor the survivors, and serve as a symbolic commemoration,” Giedraitienė said.
Members of the ghetto and concentration camp prisoners’ union from throughout Lithuania, members of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, representatives from the Israeli embassy to Lithuania, representatives from the Lithuanian Union of Photo Artists and other honored guests are expected to attend the opening.
The opening is to be held at 5:30 P.M. on Thursday, January 7, 2016 in the Jascha Heifetz Hall on the third floor of the Lithuanian Jewish Community located at Pylimo street 4 in Vilnius.
About the artist
Giedraitienė has held over 40 showings of her work and participated in another 100 group showings around the world. She has received 38 awards. Among the more important were the Golden Eye award of Worldpress Photo received in Amsterdam in 1975 for her photograph “Wedding” (1974). Her photograph “Kitten” (1970) was included in the Encyclopedia of Photography of the International Photography Center published in New York in 1984. It was also included in the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon encyclopedia in 2006.
Her works are collected at the Canon Gallery in Amsterdam, the International Photography Center in New York, the Museum of French Photography in Paris, the Šiauliai Museum of Photography and the International Museum of Photography in Catalonia, Spain.
