Invited to create a project for the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial, Esther Shalev-Gerz chose to ask museum professionals to talk—the director, a historian, an archaeologist, a female restorer, and a female photographer: people who are in daily contact with the objects found in the grounds of the camp. They talk about their encounters—professional, personal, and imaginary—with these objects created or diverted by the prisoners, which attest to their ability to resist the inhuman conditions that were inflicted on them. Born in Lithuania, Esther Shalev-Gerz grew up in Israel, and lives in Paris since 1984. For more than twenty years she has been developing work centered on questions associated with the construction of memory, whether personal or collective. Her reinterpretation of history is firmly anchored in the present of her protagonists: The majority of her works are created in dialogue with people – be they the inhabitants of a specific place, or the witnesses of a particular event. Thus the past is always interpreted through the present of those who remember it, or work with its relics. Through different stories, in the gap between listening and telling, and by means of her installations, Esther Shalev-Gerz creates new spaces to tackle the questions of recollection, memory, bearing witness, and our relationship to history.