The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has announced that a shofar hidden and blown in the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago will be added to the museum’s traveling exhibit, “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” The shofar was given from one prisoner to another with the message: “I’m going to die. If you live, take this shofar. Tell them we blew the shofar at Auschwitz. Prisoner Chaskel Tydor survived, and took the shofar with him to Israel and then to America. His daughter is loaning the shofar to show the great lengths imprisoned Jews went to practice their religion during the Holocaust, she said. The exhibit is on view until Jan. 3, 2020.

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