Exhibited at Pier 21 Immigration Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia.





Canadian artists Angela Henderson and Solomon Nagler, in collaboration with Polish artists Alexandra Janus and Aleksander Schwarz, present a site-specific intervention at Pier 21 that maps unmarked graves of Holocaust victims into architectural space. Positioned within view of Elpaqkwitk (Georges Island), the project uses installation, print-making, photography, and sculpture to explore memory, witnessing, and institutional silence across histories of genocide and colonialism.
Set within a transitional hallway space, the exhibition draws unsettling parallels between Jewish mass graves in Eastern Poland and colonial commemorative monuments across Kjipuktuk. Contact prints, housed in wooden forms, create a multi-directional archive of these layered histories, while graphite "survey markers" inscribed with coordinates from sites of difficult history connect geographies of violence and nation-building.
Framed by the biblical verse “All flesh is grass,” the artists acknowledge their presence on unceded Mi’kmaw territory, foregrounding the ecological and ethical implications of remembrance. This work is part of a growing, open-source digital archive developed with the Zapomniane Foundation, aimed at supporting collective research, education, and reconciliation.