As they realized that the girl on the wall and the woman with the walker were one and the same, they fell silent. A class from the local nursing school, there as part of their medical ethical training, looked on. When we came to the kindertransport exhibit, our guide, Veronique Jonas pointed out the picture of Magie as a young girl. The museum artfully highlights local survivors and distinctively sheds light on the Nuremberg trial and universal human rights. More eyepopping than the museum itself was watching Magie walk the entire building for two hours without sitting down once. Magie had survived the Shoah because of the kindertransport. I wanted to see it, but only if I could see it with a dear friend and adopted grandmother figure, Magie Furst. Before COVID, the community had completed the enormous Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. Two weeks later, I flew to my previous hometown, Dallas, Texas. These New Americans built up the synagogues, the day school, and the whole Jewish community.Ī child of survivors in my synagogue told me recently: “The generation that fled Europe and rebuilt their lives again is as important to the history of the Jewish people as the generation that fled Egypt and received the Torah in the Sinai desert.” These were the children of parents who came with nothing but nightmares, and realized the American dream for themselves and their offspring. They recalled the card games played by their “New American” parents, the carpools to religious school, the new Jewish lives they had built together on new soil.

After the final kaddish, the adult children of survivors began sharing memories with each other in person and through the screen.

The deceased was the child of a survivor, and nearly all the attendees were children and grandchildren of survivors (and one lone survivor, as well). But that same evening, I witnessed something even more inspiring.Īt a neighborhood clubhouse, I officiated a “new normal” shiva service for two dozen masked congregants and another 20 participants on a big-screen TV via Zoom. When I visited, I was proud of the Jewish community’s presence and grateful for the broad cross-section of visitors. It is even more impressive that 250,000 Kansas-Citians have gone through, including dozens of multifaith clergy groups hosted by our local Jewish Community Relations Bureau | AJC chapter. It is a stunningly good exhibit, and a coup for a city the size of Kansas City to host it at our Union Station. Horn also profiles this exhibit (from its New York installation) in her book. Not far away.” The exhibit is produced by the Spanish company, Musalia, and its only other American stop has been at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. Kansas City is only the second home to the world-renowned exhibit “Auschwitz: Not long ago.

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