Finding Home Again: Holocaust Survivors In North Carolina

The Finding Home Again: Holocaust Survivors In North Carolina exhibit is a part of 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 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 visitors to explore and learn about each extraordinary individual.

In the decades after the Holocaust, more than 380 Holocaust survivors settled in North Carolina including Meyer and Sam Scheib who moved to Bertie County, Betty Haar Salvo who moved to Perquimans County, and Hilde Joseph and Bernard Szabo who moved to Halifax County. This traveling exhibit of the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust is possible thanks to the Silvian Foundation, who provided a grant to cover the production. 

The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will run until August 2027.