Cullman High School Counselor Jill Bishop Hollis, and her daughter, East Elementary student Elianna Hollis, view a display at the Darkness Into Life Holocaust exhibit at Cullman High School.

Cullman County students and residents will have a chance to learn more about the Holocaust and how it affected people close to home by visiting the Darkness into Life: Alabama Holocaust Survivors Through Photography and Art exhibit currently on display at Cullman High School. 

The exhibit features photography and artwork from Holocaust survivors who lived in Alabama, along with educational narratives that help tell their stories of the pain and sorrow that they felt during the Holocaust and the joy they felt after being liberated and settling into their new lives in Alabama. 

The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center offers the exhibit at no charge to schools around the state, and Cullman High School teachers Susan Boyd and Gina Nix applied for the opportunity to host it. 

“Cullman High School is so honored to be hosting the Holocaust exhibit Darkness Into Life,” Nix and Boyd said in a joint statement. “We have worked in conjunction with the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center to bring this traveling display to Cullman so that our students and community would have the opportunity to learn more about the Holocaust without having to travel.”

Cullman City students will have the chance to explore the exhibit as part of their history classes, and Cullman County schools have been invited as well. 

The exhibit will be open to the the public on Feb. 13 and 15 from 5-7 p.m. on both nights.