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The new changing exhibit “Holocaust Survivors in a New Land: The New Americans Social Club of New Orleans” is on view through the end of the year at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. The exhibit tells the story of the social organization that formed to assist European Holocaust survivors who relocated to New Orleans. The exhibit tells their assimilation stories, their strides toward self-sufficiency, and the close social ties established within their “chosen family.” The exhibit is drawn from a trove of photos, documents and oral histories assembled by John Menszer, a local attorney who has been interviewing local Holocaust survivors since the 1990s. His mother, Elaine, had been doing so since the 1970s.I recently visited the exhibit with Michael Jacobs, the museum’s collections and exhibits curator. More at themuseumgoer.com.