ON MY KMBC FACEBOOK PAGE. KRIS: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION ON THE HOLOCAUST WILL FEATURE 700 ORIGINAL ARTIFACTS DOCUMENTING THE HOR OFS OF THE NAZI DEATH CAMP. THEY SAY IT COMES FROM THE NOTION THAT IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN. >> IT ASKS AND DEMANDS OF US TO CAPACITY OF HUMAN BEH

Union Station to host Holocaust exhibit displaying 700 original artifacts from Auschwitz

Updated: 8:57 AM CDT Sep 16, 2020

Next summer, Union Station will become home to what is called the most comprehensive exhibition on the Holocaust ever seen in North America.The exhibit is called Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away, and it will open in June 2021.The exhibit, which was developed in part by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and curated by an international panel of experts, features more than 700 original artifacts, 400 photographs and personal items from victims and survivors of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. It stands as lesson for all humanity, Jessica Rockhold, of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, said. It asks us, it demands of us, to challenge our belief in the capacity for human behavior.The exhibition will open in June and run into the first months of 2022. Kansas City is one of two U.S. cities to host this exhibition.

Next summer, Union Station will become home to what is called the most comprehensive exhibition on the Holocaust ever seen in North America.

The exhibit is called Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away, and it will open in June 2021.

The exhibit, which was developed in part by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and curated by an international panel of experts, features more than 700 original artifacts, 400 photographs and personal items from victims and survivors of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp.

It stands as lesson for all humanity, Jessica Rockhold, of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, said. It asks us, it demands of us, to challenge our belief in the capacity for human behavior.

The exhibition will open in June and run into the first months of 2022. Kansas City is one of two U.S. cities to host this exhibition.

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