Perhaps no event is more indelibly marked in U.S. Jewish life this year than the Jan. 15 hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX. Two items from that day will be displayed at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker had welcomed a 44-year-old British national into the synagogue shortly before Shabbat services and offered him a cup of tea. Midway through the service, the visitor pulled out a gun and took Cytron-Walker and three others hostage. After a nearly 11-hour standoff, Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the hostage-taker, distracting him and allowing an escape.

Both the teacup and the chair are now at the Philadelphia museum, where they will be exhibited alongside a video recorded with the rabbi and the other hostages as part of a broader exhibit titled “The Future Will Follow the Past,” that will include events over the last two years within the American Jewish community, including political polarization and antisemitism.

The exhibit will open in May, coinciding with Jewish American Heritage Month