A lengthy article in The New York Times by Ralph Blumenthal and Joseph Berger detailed the replications to be mounted in an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which will devote 40 rooms on three floors to 700 or more artifacts and settings designed to provide a vivid sense of the Nazi death camp where 1.1 million people were killed, a million of them Jews.

The exhibition is titled “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” It 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 hate crimes are growing, and the memories of — and witnesses to — what happened to six million Jews and other victimized minorities three-quarters of a century ago are fading away,” The New York Times said.

Visitors will see 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, a canister once filled with the poison gas pellets that sealed their fate, plus small, personal items, remnants of a life once lived.

The exhibition will open May 8, 2019 and run through Jan. 3, 2020 at the museum, located at 36 Battery Place, in Manhattan. For tickets, visit the website or call 646-437-4231.