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Union Station Kansas City final US stop of international touring exhibition on Holocaust and Auschwitz concentration camp

Sep 18, 2020 Joe Kleiman Museums, News, North America, World markets Comments Off on Union Station Kansas City final US stop of international touring exhibition on Holocaust and Auschwitz concentration camp


Union Station Kansas City final US stop of international touring exhibition on Holocaust and Auschwitz concentration camp

Union Station Kansas City has announced the June 2021 opening of the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America:  Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.

“Over the last five years, our Board of Directors and professional team have worked tirelessly with Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABSM) in Poland, the producers of the exhibition, in order to bring this to our community, region and country,” George Guastello, Union Station president and CEO, said.  “Musealia and the ABSM, in turn, worked with dozens of other international museums, institutions and private collections to assemble this significant presentation.  We traveled to Europe and saw first-hand the haunting pictures, objects and stories of the victims of the Holocaust. Remembering the largest genocide perpetrated in the 20th century is imperative for the education of our future generations.  It is important that we continue to tell the story in an effort to educate and bring to light the hatred that led to the human catastrophe of Auschwitz. We must never forget.”

Bank of America — the presenting sponsor — continues their tradition of bringing stories and histories of great importance to local, regional and national audiences who visit Union Station.

“In the unfamiliar isolation of a global pandemic, we look for stories of strength and courage and grace,” Matt Linski, Kansas City Market President for Bank of America, said.  “Those themes will be here, in abundance, to inspire and empower us to never forget what hate destroys.  We are proud to help our longstanding partner, Union Station, illuminate hope and humanity.  Understanding the individual and collective tragedy captured in this exhibition is more important than ever.” 

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. features more than 700 original artifacts and 400 photographs, many of which have never been publicly available.  The story will unfold across Union Station’s 20,000 sqf Bank of America Gallery and introduce objects and survivor testimony through 20 thematic galleries.

“The aim of this meticulous and poignant exhibition is to discover the complex reality of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau within its historical context, as well as to examine how such a place could come to exist and the terrible historical and human consequences derived from the Holocaust,” Luis Ferreiro, Director of the exhibition and CEO said. “Auschwitz did not start with gas chambers. Hatred does not happen overnight; it builds up slowly among people. It does so with words and thoughts, with small everyday acts, with prejudices. When we had the vision to create the exhibition, we conceived its narrative as an opportunity to better understand how such a place could come to exist, and as a warning of where hatred can take us to. Therefore, it is of vital importance to remember the road that led to Auschwitz and the consequences it had.”

“Today, the world is moving in uncertain directions,” said Dr. Piotr Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. “That is why we need to rely more on the strong foundations of our memory. Auschwitz and the tragedy of the Shoah are part of those foundations, which cannot be bypassed in creating a new face of the world.  Nothing can replace a visit to the authentic site of the biggest crime of the 20th century but this exhibition can become a great warning cry for us all and allow people who may never get the chance to visit an opportunity to see and experience it like never before.”

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. explores the dual identity of the camp as a physical location—the largest documented mass murder site in human history—and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human barbarity.

The exhibition will allow visitors to experience artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum including hundreds of personal items—such as suitcases, eyeglasses, and shoes—that belonged to survivors and victims of Auschwitz. Other artifacts include concrete posts that were part of the fence of the Auschwitz camp; fragments of an original barrack for prisoners from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp; a desk and other possessions of the first and the longest serving Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss; a gas mask used by the SS; Picasso’s Lithograph of Prisoner; and an original German-made Model 2 freight wagon used for the deportation of Jews to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Poland.

Exhibition visitors will trace the development of Nazi ideology and the transformation of Auschwitz from an ordinary Polish town known as Oświęcim to the most significant Nazi site of the Holocaust—at which ca. 1 million Jews, and tens of thousands of others, were murdered. Victims included Polish political prisoners, Sinti and Roma, Soviet POWs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and those the Nazis deemed “homosexual,” “disabled,” “criminal,” “inferior,” or adversarial in countless other ways. In addition, the exhibition contains artifacts that depict the world of the perpetrators—SS men who created and operated the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

Union Station officials anticipate guests from local, regional, national and even international origins to attend the exhibition.

“Union Station has earned a stellar international reputation for presenting culturally important and historically significant content,” Ramón Murguía, Union Station Board Chairman, said. “This exhibition puts a particular point on that.  We expect to welcome visitors not only from our local and regional areas, but also nationally and even internationally. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and we are deeply honored to be a part of this international exhibition of unprecedented importance.  I encourage everyone to make plans to attend and I especially want to thank all our partners and supporters who are making this possible.”

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. was conceived by Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and curated by an international panel of experts, including world-renowned scholars Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, and Paul Salmons, in an unprecedented collaboration with historians and curators at the Research Center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, led by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz.

“All through the exhibition there are stories—stories about individuals and families, stories about communities and organizations, stories about ideologies that teach people to hate, and responses that reveal compassion and love. There are stories of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, stories with heroes and villains—stories that all merge into an epic story of a continent marked by war and genocide,” said Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, Chief Curator, who has published several books on the camp—including the award-winning Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (1996) and The Case for Auschwitz (2002).

Additionally, Union Station is partnering with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) to host a series of public and educational programming that will feature experts on the Holocaust and be available through the exhibition run.

“In 2000, MCHE first partnered in hosting a traveling exhibition with Union Station when our agencies presented Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story,” Jessica Rockhold, Executive Director, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, said. “Twenty years later we are honored to again be partnering with Union Station to bring such an important educational experience to Kansas City and the Midwest. The importance of an exhibition like Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. cannot be overstated. Most people will never have the opportunity to travel to Auschwitz and other Holocaust sites. This exhibit offers access to those precious artifacts that personalize and make tangible the history we learn in books.”

VIP/Anytime Exhibition Tickets are now on sale for $25 at unionstation.org. A precise, June 2021 opening date will be announced in the coming months. Buyers of advance “VIP/Anytime” tickets will be given first option to reserve their exact time of exhibition visit. 

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