Te manavi drishtikonatuna kase kaye sakya hote (How was it humanly possible)?” reads the opening panel of the Marathi version of Shoah, an exhibition that offers insight into major historical events associated with the Holocaust, a term used to describe the brutal genocide of nearly six million Jews across German-occupied Europe during World War II. “It was perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies with the sole aim of annihilating the Jewish people,” explains another panel.

Featuring 16 panels, the exhibition encapsulates the period starting from 1933 to 1945, presenting the Jewish life pre-, during and post-Holocaust, ending with the liberation of Jews from concentration camps across the continent. The photographs force us to imagine this bloodied past—starving Jewish children on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland; a young boy working in the Jewish cemetery, pulling a body out of the morgue for burial; a mother holding an infant with her prison number tattooed on her arms, forcing us to reflect on how she had been disrobed of her identity. This is juxtaposed with the theatrical fandom that Adolf Hitler enjoyed amongst his supporters. Yes, how was it humanly possible?