Learn About Auschwitz Exhibit That Will Display WWII-Era Boxcar

BATTERY PARK CITY, NY — The Museum of Jewish Heritage is hosting a discussion Wednesday night about its new Auschwitz exhibition that will feature a World War II-era freight car that once transported Jewish people to Nazi concentration camps.

Ahead of the freight car's installation next Sunday, the museum is hosting a community discussion about the exhibition Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the museum, located at 36 Battery Place.

Dr. Irit Felsen, a clinical psychological and child of Holocaust survivors, will facilitate a discussion regarding the exhibition and the installation of the freight car — which is among those that transported millions of people to concentration camps.

The event Wednesday night is free. Advanced registration is recommended. The public can sign up here.

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The freight car that will be displayed is one of 120,000 built in the early 1900s used to transport soldiers, prisoners of war, and to deport Jews, Roma, and others to concentration camps across Europe. Some 80 people and their belongings were crammed into such boxcars. The one that will be on display is about 11.5 feet wide and 31.5 feet long.

In addition to the freight car, the exhibition — "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." — will feature more than 700 original objects never seen in the U.S.

It will open May 8 and run through Jan. 3, 2020.