This exhibision is part of the citywide programme of activities undertaken for the 2013 Theme Year 'Diversity Destroyed' in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the Nazi regime's accession to power on 30 January 1933 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the November Pogroms of 1938.

An enlarged replica of the sculpture by Kathe Kollwitz known as "Mother With Her Dead Son" made by Harald Haacke.