Liberation80: Exhibition on Bloodiest Conflict Opens in Pohronske Museum

Nova Bana, 24 May (TASR) - An exhibition entitled 'Look Back! The Era of the Bloodiest Conflict' was opened earlier this week at the Pohronske Museum in Nova Bana (Banska Bystrica region) to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, TASR has learnt from museum director Jana Potocka. According to Potocka, the exhibition is designed to familiarise visitors not only with the combat that took place during the global conflict, but also with the environment in which people lived at that time. "The then [wartime] Slovak state was full of paradoxes and is rightly described as 'a leaky totality'. The second part will take visitors through the battle front to all cardinal directions chronologically, through the most significant battles and battles that were specific to that war," said Potocka. She pointed out that more than 62 million people, both soldiers and civilians, were killed during the war, with a high portion of them murdered in concentration camps. The exhibition, therefore, also recalls the millions who were murdered and is aimed at making people think of the importance of peace. "The phrase 'look back' is a call. A call to man to be aware of his or her own fragility and mortality, to realise that war never resolved anything, it only buried the hopes of millions of people for a peaceful and happy life," said Potocka, adding that looking back into the past is especially needed nowadays. ko/df