Auschwitz, Berlin, and Catholicism – Luis Ferreiro

Living Our Beliefs

Episode 67.
Luis Ferreiro is the CEO of the Spanish family museum exhibition company Musealia, which creates and manages traveling exhibits that educate and inspire us about major world events. The exhibit currently in Boston Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away, which he produced in conjunction with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum addresses this historical site and environs through more than 700 objects. In this upcoming podcast episode, Luis talks about the inspiration for and core message of the Auschwitz exhibit. He also talks about another exhibit, currently showing in Madrid, The Berlin Wall: A World Divided. Interwoven through these topics is the role his Catholic upbringing plays in his life and exhibition work.

Highlights:
· Influence of Luis’s Catholic upbringing

· Development of exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away

· Influence of Viktor Frankl's book "Man’s Search of Meaning" after the loss of Luis's brother

· Inspiration for The Berlin Wall: A World Divided exhibition

· Church of Reconciliation and Bernauer Strasse

· Redemption and its connection to Christian and Jewish perspectives

· Significance of religious traditions and international museum work

References:

Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning

Church of Reconciliation, former East Berlin, Germany (GDR).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ZMppvkqoI
https://www.visitberlin.de/en/chapel-reconciliation

Brendan Killian’s Living Our Beliefs episode God, Sobriety + Art

Social Media links for guest:

Musealia website – https://www.musealia.net

Social Media links for Méli:
Talking with God Project – https://www.talkingwithgodproject.org
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/melisolomon/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066435622271
Transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851013/episodes/15037534

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Chapters

1. Auschwitz, Berlin, and Catholicism – Luis Ferreiro (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:05)

3. Background (00:02:18)

4. Catholic values and morals (00:05:19)

5. Personal practice (00:08:20)

6. Museum work (00:19:14)

7. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away (00:23:58)

8. Berlin Wall: A World Divided (00:33:38)