Current Exhibit

The Ravensbrück Series

We will open a new exhibit on June 12th. The Ravensbrück Series by the late Brenda Bettinson is a collection of 17 paintings created with acrylic paint and pencil on board, panel and fabric. Brenda was moved to create the works after she read Sarah Helm’s book, Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women about the enslavement, beatings, torture, rape, starvation, surgical experimentation and murder of the women at the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück Series will be exhibited at the HHRC from June 12th to September 5th, 2025.

Image information: Ravensbrück Series #15: Kommandant (1942 to 45) © Bettinson Art & Literary Trust, 2025 all rights reserved. Used by permission, on loan from Mathias Fine Art. Photo credit: Melville Mclean, 2025

Through the Lens

Through the Lens: Creating Soul Survivors by Photographer Jack Montgomery will showcase his stunning portraits and new book. Writes Jack, “The things we save can become the means for our recovery. I am moved by every aspect of these stories … And I am forever grateful to the survivors for giving us this record, which no amount of denial or historical revisionism can ever erase. We are in their debt.” These books will be distributed to every school in Maine.