The Finding Home: NC Holocaust Survivors Exhibit is the newest addition to the traveling exhibit program of the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. Created by a cadre of experienced teachers while at a seminar at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement in Teaching (NCCAT) in Cullowhee, NC in April of 2024. Each panel tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who found their new home after settling in North Carolina in the years or even decades following their survival of the Holocaust. Each panel shares about life before the Holocaust, what happened to the survivors during the Holocaust, and how they came to North Carolina after leaving Europe. Photographs, quotes, and a QR code give even more information for students to explore to learn about each extraordinary individual.

In March of 2025, many of the same teachers who created the original panels also created some artistic interpretations of some of the survivor panels, including adding a sound element to the exhibit with the survivor voices when recordings were available. Some of these art pieces will also travel with each exhibit. Lesson plans for how to use the exhibit in the classroom are available to be downloaded below.

Easels for each panel will travel with the exhibit to make it easier for teachers and organizations to display the panels for the entire community to see. Survivors from each geographic area have been carefully chosen to help students make local connections. A digital folder with information on over 380 Holocaust survivors who settled in North Carolina is also provided with the exhibit for further research opportunities for students.

The traveling exhibits of the Finding Home Again Holocaust Survivors in NC panels are made possible thanks to The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, who provided grants to cover the cost of printing two complete exhibits (42 panels), lesson plans, easels to display panels, storage cases to carry easels, and carrying cases for the panels.

If the Flipbook of the Exhibit below is too large to download, click here for access to the view-only Canva file of the panels that you can share with your students! 

The physical exhibit can be reserved in two different formats: a 12-panel version for teachers with survivor profiles from your geographic area, and the entire 42-panel exhibit for organizations with very large spaces available.