Messages from Survivors

Voorheesville Public Library welcomes “Messages From Survivors,” a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust, survival, and resiliency from Monday, February 10 through Friday, March 14. The exhibit is built on 40 years of filming a family of Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, Miami, and a bungalow colony in the Catskills between 1962 and 2016.  

Visitors to the Library will find six panels that tell the story through photos, text, and links to video interviews with the survivors and their families. The panels were researched using the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s resources to provide historical context for the video footage.  

Take-home cards keep the story alive once visitors return home. Each card contains stories of family members–some who survived, and some who didn’t, along with QR code links to the videos.   

Roz Jacobs, exhibit co-creator, and the daughter of one of the survivors, noted “I want people to feel as if they are personally meeting my family. My parents met at a forced labor camp. My mother’s entire immediate family was murdered and my father lost most of his family. My mother said, “No one could believe things could get so bad. But they did.” Their message to the world was, “Don’t let it happen again. No place. In no country.” We hope this exhibit will inspire every community to address even the smallest incidents of hatred, injustice, and cruelty.  

This exhibit is made possible by a partnership with Upper Hudson Library System and The Memory Project Productions, Inc.