On the occasion of Memorial Day 2023, the Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation, in collaboration with The William G. Congdon Foundation, with the patronage of the United States Diplomatic Mission in Italy, the non-profit Intercultura Foundation, the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan and the Marche Region, presents from 13 January to 19 February 2023 , at the exhibition venue of Palazzo Bisaccioni in Jesi , the exhibition William Congdon. In The Death of One. Artist and ambulance driver in the hell of Bergen-Belsen / May 1945, curated by Rodolfo Balzarotti and Francesco Gesti and with the coordination of Mauro Tarantino.

The exhibition, previously produced by the William G. Congdon Foundation and set up at the Shoah Memorial in Milan until last March 2022, is now returning to Jesi at the turn of the annual anniversary of 27 January 2023, Memorial Day, to give space to testimony by the famous American painter William Congdon, who worked as an ambulance worker for the American Field Service in the terrible Bergen Belsen concentration camp that had just been liberated by British troops.

In fact, between the end of April and the end of May 1945, William Congdon worked on the recovery of survivors of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, witnessing firsthand the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust. Congdon tried to give a shape to the faces he saw through texts and sketches collected in a diary, later reworked in a typescript entitled "In the Death of One", a sort of memorial of his military campaigns, which culminated, in the last part, in a series of descriptions of particularly heartbreaking moments and figures of the Belsen Field. The William Congdon exhibition. In The Death of One it has this work by Congdon as its leitmotif, of which some original pages are included.