An exhibition titled 'The Bromberg Violin: Victims of Anti-Jewish Campaigns in the USSR (1920–1950)' has opened in Moscow.

At the center of the exhibition is the life journey of GULAG prisoner Veniamin Bromberg—a musician, artist, writer, and committed Zionist executed in Kolyma in 1942. The display features materials from the collection of the Memorial Society, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the State Public Historical Library of Russia, and the Museum of Jewish History in Russia. One of the central themes of the exhibition is the persecution of Jews for their affiliation, whether real or fabricated, with national, religious, cultural, or political movements. The exposition also reflects Bolshevik policy in the initial post-revolutionary years, when significant efforts were made toward the development of national culture, as well as the social and professional integration of Jews. With the outbreak of the Second World War, this course gradually began to shift: antisemitic sentiments were fueled, culminating by the late 1940s in overt state-sponsored Judeophobia and repression.

Veniamin Bromberg. Two-humped Rock. 1927. Eggshell. Collection of the International Memorial Museum

The project was a winner of the museum and exhibition grant competition organized by the Russian Jewish Congress.

EAJC acted as the media partner for the exhibition.

The exhibition will be open at the International Memorial (Karetny Ryad, 5/10) from December 17, 2019, until September 2020, daily except Sundays and Mondays, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.