"Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After" is a powerful and moving exhibition of 88 photographs taken by English photographer Michael Kenna. The photographs, selected from several thousand images produced over a twelve-year period, document the Nazi concentration and extermination camps in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, France,

Italy, Holland, and Latvia. Born after WWII, Michael Kenna is a part of a later generation of artists and writers who didn't experience or witness the Holocaust directly. Indeed, during his first visit to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France in 1986, Kenna was overwhelmed by the abomination of the gas chambers and by the inexpressible suffering of the victims that can only be hinted at by the haunting emptiness of the camps. Kenna's goal was to convey what he himself found impossible to forget about the camps. Knowing that a work of art can be an invitation to meditation, he returned over and over to the concentration camps to photograph what they had become: sites of contemplation. This exhibit speaks of the profound need for humanity - both living and future generations - to persist in remembering the eleven million human beings murdered in these camps. Kenna said a glimpse at his photographs does not tell the whole story, "when you are there, you know that the pool is composed of the ashes of thousands and thousands of bodies. If you put your hand in it, it is gray and all you pick up is bone."