The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York

THE YORK TIMES
By Ralph Blumenthal and Joseph Berger

In Madrid, visitors to “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.,” an exhibition that is coming to New York, viewed a work by David Olère, a survivor who recreated a crematory there from memory.

A boxcar of the kind the Nazis used to transport people like cattle. The barracks where they slept jammed into narrow bunks. The posts from fences that caged them in. A canister once filled with the poison gas pellets that sealed their fate. With these artifacts and 700 others, the Museum of Jewish Heritage is set to bring Auschwitz to New York this spring. The exhibition, titled “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.,” is aimed at refocusing the heritage museum into one that will delve more deeply into the Holocaust at a time when Jewish leaders say anti-Semitism and other hatreds are growing and the memory of — and witnesses to — what happened to six million Jews and other victimized minorities three-quarters of a century ago are fading away. [More]

Museum of Jewish Heritage: "Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away." (May 8, 2019 – January 3, 2020); Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY; (646)437-4202; mjhnyc.org

“This exhibit reminds them, and it reminds all of us, where anti-Semitism ultimately leads and the world should never go there again.” ~ ” Ronald Lauder, philanthropist