This exhibition focuseson the survivors

who eventually found their wayto South Carolina

to rebuild their lives,and also on the

South Carolina liberators of the concentration camps.

“I believe that faith is stronger than death,and I believe that we have a dream that is so powerful,

that it is stronger than all of the ugliness that lies in anti-Semitic booksand anti-life forces around us.”

Jadzia Sklarz Stern, Survivor of AuschwitzCame to Columbia, SC in 1949

Bluma Goldberg, Survivor of AuschwitzCame to Columbia in 1950.

“To review these events is very painful. . .I bear it willingly only if you take it into your heart

that somehow you and I will contribute togetherto diminish the possibility that this could ever happen again.”

The Holocaust is the term generally used to describethe killing of approximately six million European Jewsbetween 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany and itscollaborators. Millions more of the innocent sufferedpersecution and death as victims of the state-sponsored Nazityranny. This policy grew out of a deliberate plan ofextermination (The Final Solution), formulated by theNational Socialist regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

During this period other groups also suffered persecutionby Nazi Germany: these included Roma (Gypsies); Slavicpeople; communists; Poles; disabled people;homosexuals; and political dissidents. The estimateddeath toll under the Nazis reached between nine andeleven million.

Illustrative view of the entrance to Auschwitz.

Bluma Goldberg

Jadzia Sklarz Stern

The systematic attack on the Jews

Sketch of concentration camp prisoners at the time of liberation.

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• Legislation to remove Jews from civil society began inGermany several years before World War II.

• During the 1930s the Nazis built concentration camps whereJews and other “undesirables” were imprisoned and used asslave labor until they died from exhaustion or disease.

• With the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazi regime began toimplement its genocide against Jews beyond the borders ofGermany.

• By 1941, with the invasion of Soviet Russia, specialized unitscalled Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to locate Jewish peoplein all occupied territory, and murder them along with Slavsand communists.

• In some urban areas Jews and Roma were crammed into tinyghettos for months, even years, before being transportedhundreds of miles by train to extermination camps. Those thatsurvived the brutal journey often did not last long in the camps.Most were killed in gas chambers soon after their arrival.