More than 500 artifacts and 400 photographs go on public display Saturday at the Cincinnati Museum Center. "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." is billed as the largest collection of artifacts from Auschwitz outside of Europe.

It includes more than 500 original objects from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and more than 20 other international museums. Among them are shoes, eyeglasses, toys, clothing, and hundreds of other personal objects that belonged to survivors and victims.

The exhibit was created in cooperation with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and curated by an international panel of experts, scholars, and historians. It details the rise of Nazi ideology through World War II and how that hatred played out horrifically in the Polish town of Oświęcim.

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