Empty Frames
In 1939 Hitler and Stalin made an agreement (The German-Soviet Nonagression Pact, or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) to divide Poland. They then promptly invaded Poland and began systematic mass murder and looting, campaigns that did not abate after Germany and the USSR went to war with each other in 1941. Many museums we visited had some sort of exhibit like the above. The empty frames commemorate the vast cultural heritage looted during the Second World War and the country's continuing project of reaquisition. Empty Frames exhibit at the Wilanów Palace, Warsaw.
Empty Frames
In 1939 Hitler and Stalin made an agreement (The German-Soviet Nonagression Pact, or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) to divide Poland. They then promptly invaded Poland and began systematic mass murder and looting, campaigns that did not abate after Germany and the USSR went to war with each other in 1941. Many museums we visited had some sort of exhibit like the above. The empty frames commemorate the vast cultural heritage looted during the Second World War and the country's continuing project of reaquisition. Empty Frames exhibit at the Wilanów Palace, Warsaw.