The Last Witnesses: Artifacts from the Museum's Collection

From the red shoes a toddler wore in a ghetto in Poland before she was deported and killed to a wooden boat used to smuggle Danish Jews to safety, the Museum's collection of Holocaust evidence reflects a wide range of individual experiences and perspectives on the history. The new book The Last Witnesses tells the powerful stories behind several dozen artifacts from the Museum's collection. These items show what happened in one of the darkest chapters of human history and help us recognize that the Holocaust took place in a world not unlike our own and could occur again if we do not heed the lessons of the past.