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Jan 23, 2019 Museum, NY, Auschwitz

Traveling Auschwitz Exhibition Opens in NY May 8th

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City will present a traveling exhibition dedicated to the historical significance of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. It will feature more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The exhibition is now is in Madrid where it has drawn some 600,000 visitors. It will be in New York from May 8, 2019 until January 3, 2020 and will take up 40 rooms on three floors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Sources:

Museum of Jewish Heritage
The New York Times

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