The Jewish Museum is preparing an exhibition in new York. About the Holocaust and not only

In new York this Sunday morning came an unusual rail car: old, rusty, no Windows. The car should be in Manhattan at the Museum of Jewish heritage, where on may 8 opens the exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust.

This boxcar used by the German National Railway to transport Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp is now on display at @MJHnews #NotLongAgoNotFarAway pic.twitter.com/vklGwXa2Yb

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In Nazi death camps, the Nazis deliberately killed about 6 million people. This year the exhibition will feature 700 exhibits, telling about the terrible fate of the Jews and other Nations, fascism sentenced to elimination. German car, maybe not the most important, but the most visible showpiece of despair. 92-year-old ray Kaner, a Holocaust survivor, tells the Associated Press that like riding in this car in the extermination camp: «In one wooden box we crammed 80 people, without any tools, just a bucket for urine. You couldn’t go, so I had to sleep sitting up, and smell». Such wagons were used throughout Europe for deportation of people.

The WWII-era freight car is now placed and will help us to educate people about the Holocaust. This artifact is part of “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” @auschwitzxhibit @AuschwitzMuseum #NotLongAgoNotFarAway pic.twitter.com/j1la9PPYBK

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Van pelt, whose relatives lived at that time in Amsterdam, speaks to NBC about this car: «a Dark, smelly car represents the moment of transition from the world of the living, which people gave a radically alien world of the camps, where the doors were closed, and families were separated forever. The Nazis wanted to destroy every single one of the Jews throughout the world. Is the car in which was said «goodbye».

Among the exhibits there are concrete posts of the fence of Auschwitz (the camp where gas, starvation and executions were destroyed about 1 million Jews and 100 thousand representatives of other nationalities), are covered with barbed and electrified wire, the mask used SS, table, owned by the commandant of Auschwitz, as well as personal belongings of Heinrich Himmler, chief architect of the camp system of Nazi Germany, for example, his dagger.

Auschwitz, Poland, 1945, Children After Their Liberation by the Red Army pic.twitter.com/RvF8ACiCtz

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There are also personal belongings of the prisoners seized a guard: combs, musical instruments, or, for example, tickets to St. Louis on a boat of refugees, which the United States refused to accept, sending the damned back to the Nazis.

31 March 1943 | A German Jew Hans Hanauer (b. June 1918 in Berlin) perished in the #Auschwitz camp — he was killed with intracardiac phenol injection. He was deported to the camp on 4 March 1943. In the picture: Hans & Ursula his wife who survived the war. pic.twitter.com/Orr54qnsF3

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) March 31, 2019

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum, Bruce Ratner share what matters to him right now:

«Although after the Holocaust, we all hoped that the international community will come together to end genocide, mass murder and ethnic cleansing, these crimes are continuing, and refugees today, more than ever after the Second world war. I hope that this exhibition will make all of us to establish a link between the world of the past and present and the world to stand firmly against hatred».

 

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