Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 12, 5:00-7:00pm

Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday; 12:00-5:00pm, Saturday; closed Sunday.

Life After Survival shows how a small group of volunteers, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRAA) Team 182, established the first international center for unaccompanied and displaced youth in the American zone of post-WWII Germany. Located at Kloster Indersdorf, a monastery near Munich, the center provided food, shelter and medical care, and helped young survivors of concentration camps and slave labor reconnect with their relatives or migrate abroad.

Comprising photographs, video, and text—nearly all first-person accounts—Life after Survival reveals how the young residents of Kloster Indersdorf were cared for and encouraged to plan for their future, regaining a life appropriate to their age. Video footage of social worker Greta Fischer, who was integral in creating an atmosphere of empathy and physical comfort, highlights the compassionate dedication of the UNRAA team. Interviews with former residents of the center, several of who continue to meet annually at Indersdorf, round out the narrative.

Life After Survival comes to Christ Church Neighborhood House at a time when the circumstances of refugees fleeing unrest, war, and poverty are again the focus of international attention and debate. The story of Kloster Indersdorf serves as a reminder of the individual stories collected in headlines about migrants and refugee camps.

The research of Anna Andlauer, expert on the Kloster Indersdorf children’s center and exhibit creator, is captured in her book, The Rage to Live, which will be available for sale at the Christ Church bookshop.

Originally organized for the Concentration Camp Memorial Site Flossenbürg in Germany, this exhibition is endorsed by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in cooperation with the non-governmental organizations Heimatverein Indersdorf and Lagergemeinschaft Dachau. Exhibition coordinator in the United States: Diana-Morris Bauer.