CORAL SPRINGS, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2026) — A Holocaust education exhibit is scheduled to set up inside Coral Springs City Hall on Friday, Jan. 30, bringing a walk-through replica of a World War II–era cattle car and a small but heavy collection of original artifacts to the building on Sample Road.
The exhibit operates at City Hall located at 9500 W. Sample Road from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. It’s free to attend, but space is limited and advance registration is required.
The display is known as the Hate Ends Now: Cattle Car Exhibit. Visitors will be able to step inside a replica cattle car modeled after those used during the Holocaust, when Jews and other targeted groups were transported to concentration and death camps. It’s not a long experience. About 20 minutes inside the car. But it’s designed to linger.
The replica building contains a complete 360-degree presentation which shows Holocaust history together with warnings about antisemitic and racist threats. The event organizers want to create educational experiences which will encourage participants to discuss their knowledge about this subject since they usually learn from schoolbooks and television documentaries.
Outside the car, the experience continues.
The exhibit also includes a display of 25 original Holocaust artifacts. Among them: a prisoner uniform, shoes, identification cards, and ghetto currency. Small objects, everyday items. That’s part of the point.
The cattle car and artifact exhibit areas welcome visitors who follow trained docent educators during their tour. The presentation maintains an organized structure which shows no evidence of being delivered in a rush. Walk in, walk through, take a breath, move on.
City officials explained that the exhibit served as part of their initiative to maintain Holocaust education visibility in public areas while presenting an inclusive message.
“The Multicultural Committee brought the opportunity to host the Hate Ends Now: Cattle Car Exhibit forward last year, and I’m grateful to see it come to our city,” Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen said. “The Commission Liaison position shows our shared commitment to build an inclusive space which accepts all members of the Coral Springs community. The exhibit makes us think about historical events while it shows our duty to create a better future with empathy and we maintain our commitment to learning and our opposition against hatred.
The stop in Coral Springs is a one-day event. No extended run. No repeat dates listed. The staff of City Hall maintained their regular operations during that one Friday when they conducted their planned meetings and performed their administrative duties.
People who walked through downtown at that time would probably encounter an unusual situation. A cattle car replica set up inside a government building. A line of visitors waiting their turn. The two people engaged in soft dialogue which took place either in the hotel lobby or outside by the car parking area.
The main goal of this exhibit exists to provide people with better access to historical events. Not dramatized, not theatrical. Your presence remains close to me because I sense that you are there.
Coral Springs tells Boca Post that space is limited and that online pre-registration is required.
It’s wonderful that the exhibit is coming to South Florida, but terrible that it’s only one day, a day that we are out of the country. I wish it was at least a week long.