A crane lowered a train car onto tracks outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York — a boxcar that carried Jews and others to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. It will be featured alongside several hundred Holocaust artifacts for one of the largest exhibits on Auschwitz, opening on May 8, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, some 74 years after liberation.
The memorabilia in the exhibit, titled “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago, Not Far Away,” includes a gas mask used by the SS; a helmet and a dagger belonging to Heinrich Himmler, who oversaw the concentration and death camps; and a desk belonging to Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss, among other items.
The exhibit will run through Jan. 3, 2020.