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On the opening weekend of Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away., join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and Cincinnati Museum Center for a special program amplifying Cincinnati’s connections to this landmark exhibition.
The panel discussion will feature exhibition curators, museum partners, and descendants of Holocaust survivors who built new lives in Cincinnati. Together, they will reflect on the process of bringing the exhibition to Union Terminal, explore the ways local survivor stories resonate within the exhibition, and consider how our community continues to carry forward lessons of resilience and humanity.
Following the panel discussion in Reakirt Auditorium, guests are invited to a special conversation in the CrEATe Culinary Studio featuring the Kroger Lab. Steve Coppel and Ron Coppel, sons of Holocaust survivors Werner and Trudy Coppel, will share their family’s story while recreating their mother Trudy’s cherished plum cake recipe. They will reflect on the meaningful connections between food, family, memory, and legacy. Guests will have the opportunity to sample the plum cake and take home special survivor recipe cards created for this program.
Tickets to Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. are sold separately from this event. Purchase them now to experience this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Cincinnati.
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. was created by Musealia in cooperation with 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. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. opens October 18, 2025 at Union Terminal. The opportunity to bring this impactful exhibition to Cincinnati has been generously supported by Rhonda and Larry Sheakley, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati, and the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission.
On Sunday, November 9, the Holocaust & Humanity Center will have free museum admission in commemoration of Kristallnacht. Often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass,” Kristallnacht was a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place November 9 & 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Kristallnacht was a turning point in the persecution of Jewish individuals, marking the first instance in which Jews were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps simply because they were Jewish.
Throughout the day, descendants will be in the museum sharing their family’s stories of Kristallnacht.
11:00 Fred Miller
12:00 Barbara Miller
1:00 Judith Rapport
2:00 Dr. Michael Meyer
3:00 Steve Coppel
Museum admission is free; however, CMC does have a parking fee of $6.
See how persecution against Europe’s Jewish population progressed in the landmark exhibition, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. at historic Union Terminal in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center through April 2026. Through this daunting selection of more than 500 original artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, as well as more than 20 institutions and museums all over the world, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. portrays the complex reality of the notorious camp while sharing firsthand stories from those who survived, and those who perished. Book your tickets today.
Join us for a gallery talk with Holocaust survivor Monique Rothschild on December 14. Monique shares the story of her family’s daring escape from Nazi-held Europe. Monique’s parents, Ernest and Hilda, fled antisemitism in Germany in 1933. They met and fell in love in Paris. In 1939, Ernest was sent to the first of half a dozen work camps for enemy aliens. Monique was born in 1940 in Bellac near the last labor camp where Ernest was imprisoned. Following a month of separation, Hilda was able to make the perilous trip across the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain, carrying Monique, to make departure on a ship for which she already had tickets for passage. Thanks to an unexpected travel delay of several weeks and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Ernest was able to reunite with Hilda and Monique in Seville. They reunited just in time to board one of the last ships, the SS Navemar, taking refugees to the United States and arrived just months before America entered WWII. The ship’s unimaginable conditions would later be described as a floating concentration camp. The family arrived in America in 1941, and rebuilt their lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Due to inclement weather, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center is closed today. For immediate needs, please email [email protected].
