In this Engadin Art Talks session, immunologist and Holocaust survivor Ivan Lefkovits shares a deeply personal testimony of survival, recounting his childhood experiences in Nazi concentration camps, including Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, and his eventual liberation by British forces. Rather than offering a comprehensive history of the Holocaust, Lefkovits frames his story as one “mosaic stone” within an incomprehensible whole, reflecting on memory, survival, and the limits of representation. In conversation with curator Daniel Baumann, the discussion turns to the transmission of lived experience across generations, the role of testimony once survivors are gone, and the fragile boundary between historical fact, personal memory, and ethical responsibility.
“I believe that nobody knows what the Holocaust is. We know only mosaic stones of the Holocaust, and the entire picture is not available — if it ever will be. My story is one of these mosaic stones.”
— Ivan Lefkovits
