The RUTH Exhibit intends 'to wake you and shake you,' its curator says. Now some are calling for it or a similar local exhibit to be made permanent.
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“As you go through the exhibit, you feel the presence of who’s alive,” Scheller said. “The idea is to wake you and shake you.” At the very back is a separate room, called TRUTH, that shares the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. A video of Scheller’s mother telling her story plays as viewers look at blown-up photos of the conditions in the camps, as well as a gas chamber and barrels that read “giftgas,” or poison.A mirror shown as you exit the TRUTH room at a new Holocaust remembrance exhibit at Rancho San Diego Library on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023.
Fuchs teared up as Scheller recalled how when she was a young child in Romania her mother would tell her to hide under the bed whenever anyone knocked. The exhibit was made possible by the county Board of Supervisors, who last year approved putting $25,000 in Neighborhood Reinvestment Program funding toward helping the Jewish Federation of San Diego pay for it.
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