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DateJune 02 - September 02, 2022
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LocationDeSoto County Museum
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Ticket PricesAdmission is free.
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Doors Open10:00AM
- August 13 | Saturday 10:00am
- August 16 | Tuesday 10:00am
- August 17 | Wednesday 10:00am
- August 18 | Thursday 10:00am
- August 19 | Friday 10:00am
- August 20 | Saturday 10:00am
- August 23 | Tuesday 10:00am
- August 24 | Wednesday 10:00am
- August 25 | Thursday 10:00am
- August 26 | Friday 10:00am
- August 27 | Saturday 10:00am
- August 30 | Tuesday 10:00am
- August 31 | Wednesday 10:00am
- September 01 | Thursday 10:00am
- September 02 | Friday 10:00am
The Unknown Child Exhibit honors the memory of 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. Stunning black-and-white photographs, interactive images and holograms of the faces of the lost children are part of the display. An accompanying exhibit on the cultural impact of DeSoto County's early Jewish settlers, the Goodman family, is also on display. Treasures such as a 2,000 year-old oil lamp discovered in the Dead Sea Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found is on display, along with a vintage 1880s solid bronze Menorah or Hanukkah, which belonged to rural Mississippi Jewish settlers, is also on display. The heroic efforts of Col. William W. Goodman, who rescued 1,200 Jewish families is chronicled along with a letter from famed Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert Einstein, a relative of the Goodman family, whose assistance was sought to free mutual family members from the Holocaust.
Admission is free.