The Evansville Wartime Museum will open a Holocaust exhibit next month. WNIN’s John Gibson has details:
The Rechnic Holocaust Exhibit will open to the public on October 3rd.
The exhibit will include digital maps of the mass extermination of Jewish people in Europe from 1933-1945 and the story of the Rechnic family before WWII started in their native Poland, through their years in ghettos, Nazi concentration camps, and on death marches before liberation in 1945.
The Rechnics survived the Holocaust and arrived in Evansville in 1953 to join family.
Edward and Regina Rechnic owned and operated Edwards Manufacturing Co. in downtown Evansville where clothes were made upstairs and sold downstairs.
Edwards Manufacturing employed as many as 90 people.
The Wartime Museum calls the Rechnics “models of ingenuity, perseverance, and resilience in the face of terror, brutal and inhumane treatment, and mass murder of family and friends.”