Stories Among Us:
Washington State Connections to the Holocaust
Lessons in Genocide

TThe Holocaust Center’s “Stories Among Us” exhibit consists of seven stories from the Holocaust as told through the experiences of six survivors and one liberator that live or have lived in Washington State. Each person’s story provides a different perspective of the Holocaust – from experiences as a refugee, to those in a concentration camp, to a U.S. soldier’s liberation of Buchenwald.

This exhibit is made possible by generous funding from Washington State, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and 4Culture King County Lodging Tax.

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See the banners:
Heinz Schwarz - Refugee
Ed Kaye - Partisan
Klaus and Paula Stern - Auschwitz
Leo Hymas - Liberator
Marika Abrams - Ghetto
Henry Friedman - In Hiding
Magda Schaloum - Survivor

Anne Frank: A Traveling Exhibit

The Holocaust Center's "Anne Frank" exhibit outlines Anne Frank's early life in Germany, her family's flight to Denmark, life under Nazi occupation, and eventually their time in hiding.  Through words and images, viewers are given the context of the world during the time that Anne Frank hid in the secret annex.  Additionally, there is a panel dedicated to Jewish resistance and righteous gentiles. Final panels of the exhibit describe genocide that continues to occur after the Holocaust and provide viewers with tools to combat it as citizens of the world. Content: 12 framed panels and a display system.

This exhibit is made possible by generous funding from Washington State. Created in partnership with Intiman Theater's production of  Diary of Anne Frank (2008). 

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Everyday Objects: Artifacts from Washington State Holocaust Survivors

The Holocaust Center’s “Everyday Objects” exhibit illustrates the complexities of life during the Holocaust as demonstrated through the ordinary possessions of survivors. Each poster features an artifact and the story of either the object or the person who obtained the object. The exhibit features 12 artifacts on 12 posters. Exhibit consists of 13 posters (including a title poster), sized 18 inches x 24 inches.

 Posters include:

• Bowl from Sobibor – This bowl tells Thomas Blatt’s story of resistance and uprising within this death camp.
• Photo of Baby – The photo of Hans describes the loss of children through one family’s discovery of this particular child of whom no written record exists, only this photo.
• Typewriter – This typewriter, on display at the Holocaust Center, illustrates one family’s story of desperation and despair as a son leaves his parents in Germany in 1938 to come to the U.S. Through a series of letters we see his attempts to convince his parents and siblings to join him.

The revised second edition of this series was funded by the Alfred and Tillie Shemanski Trust Fund. The original project was made possible by grants from Humanities Washington and the Women's Endowment Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

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Click here to see one of the posters ("Badges") - pdf

Holocaust Sites: Photography by Rudy Brueggemann

The Holocaust Center’s “Holocaust Sites” photo exhibit provides a visual tour of various concentration camps and Holocaust related areas in Europe. From the easily recognizable railroad tracks leading to the main entrance of Auschwitz, to the hot dog stand that is just outside the main gates of the current day museum at Auschwitz, these photos evoke complex questions surrounding the Holocaust. Content: 38 framed photographs (18in x 16in) taken in black and white, and color.

To view some of the images and to learn more about Rudy Brueggemann's work, click here.  This exhibit was generously donated to the Center by Rudy Brueggemann.

Click here for information on borrowing the "Holocaust Sites" photography exhibit.