A massive new exhibition revisits the Holocaust

There's a toddler's blush pink, ruffled dress. A buckled red shoe with cut-out slits. Clear and sea foam colored liquor bottles.
Remnants of lives stolen during the Holocaust, they are among the more than 700 objects on display at "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away," an exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, which runs through January 3, 2020.
"The woman that owned that shoe, unfortunately, we don't know anything about her," said one of the exhibition's directors, Luis Ferreiro. "Those objects are the only thing that have survived a human being. Everything else is literally ashes in the wind."
Many of the objects in the traveling exhibition, which was produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, belong to people whose stories were cut short by the Nazis. Researchers estimate around 1 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz alone, along with over 100,000 Poles, Russian soldiers, Roma, LGBTQ people, political dissidents and anyone deemed "undesirable" by the Nazis.
"Auschwitz became a place where all this life and all these stories were converging and most of them were being taken away from earth," said Ferreiro. "And now it's the opposite."