A chilling artifact now resides at Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage: a windowless boxcar that was used to transport Jews to Nazi death camps. The vintage German box car is among 700 Holocaust artifacts that will be featured in the museum’s forthcoming exhibit, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” May 8 through January 3, 2020. Curator Robert Jan van Pelt provided his private collection of Holocaust artifacts for the exhibition, including the boxcar, which was restored by his team. The boxcar on display is just one of many that traversed Europe during the Holocaust, tearing families apart and sending about one million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz by gas chambers, starvation, and other brutalities.