The world should never forget the Holocaust, and with the work of the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC), locals will be able to remember survivors. On Tuesday, a traveling exhibit on 20 Holocaust survivors who later lived in Alabama was displayed at Benjamin Russell. Denise Lewis, vice president of the BHEC, said the center’s founders interviewed the survivors then they painted images of what the survivor’s lives were like before and during the Holocaust, and took photos of them during the present. The pictures and the survivors’ stories are displayed on canvas.

Students in a pre-AP English class helped act as docents and had their own exhibits on genocide around the world, Nazi propaganda and literature about the Holocaust also on display. The students talked with more than 300 of their classmates Tuesday and today and to the community on Wednesday.