The Evidence Room explores the landmark libel trial that proved the existence of Nazi gas chambers.
The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) unveiled its latest special exhibit, The Evidence Room, with an opening program on Sunday, Jan. 26.
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It was 80 years ago Monday that Allied troops liberated prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed every January 27, and the Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills has put up a new exhibit to commemorate the occasion. It’s called the “Evidence Room,” and it focuses on architectural evidence left behind by the Nazis that illustrates the grim reality of the concentration camps.
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (WXYZ) — Every year, the number of Holocaust survivors is waning. Which is why every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivor Rae Nachbar shares her story.
“We are really disappearing species,” said Nachbar. “I was one of five children. I was the youngest, and I am the only one left standing.”
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With fascist sentiments on the rise and American civil liberties under threat, the metro Detroit region arrives at this year’s landmark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Farmington Hills’ Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) will present a two-day series of events marking the occasion on Sunday and Monday.
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By design, the all-white nature of the panels made them difficult to read. So, visitors often needed to spend time squinting or navigating their own body in order to better read the text or see the image. “Sometimes,” says Hirshbein, “visitors intuited that. They would say things like: ‘Oh, this is difficult to read,’ and then look at me and go: ‘Oh, because it’s difficult material.’”
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