Galloway, N.J. — A new exhibit by Stockton University’s Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“Sweet Home Sweet: A Story of Survival, Memory and Returns” opens Feb. 4 and runs until May 9 in Room L-112 at the university’s Galloway campus. The exhibit is based on the life story of Richard Ores, a Holocaust survivor born in Krakow, Poland, who died in 2011.

At the outbreak of World War II, he was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto with his mother and sister. In 1943, he was marched to Plaszow, a nearby labor camp. In the final months of the war, he was a prisoner in three other concentration camps — Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg and finally Dachau, where he was liberated in April 1945. He was the only person in his immediate family to survive.

Ores emigrated to New York in 1955, but he never forgot about Poland. He raised funds for hospital equipment for a clinic in Krakow and for the renovation and care of many of the city’s Jewish heritage sites with the Ronald Lauder Foundation. For these actions, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Cross of the Home Army, and the Oświęcim Cross. He was also a consultant on the film “Schindler’s List” as the film depicted several of the places in which he survived the war.

An exhibit opening will be held at 6 p.m., Feb. 4, and will feature keynote speaker Adrian Chrobot, political counsellor in the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Chrobot holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a masters degree in Political Science from the University of Wroclaw in Poland. He also teaches at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and Catholic University in Murcia, Spain.

The exhibit opening is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required by calling 609-652-4699 or emailing hrc@stockton.edu. For New Jersey educators, 2.0 professional development hours are available. Tours of the exhibit after the opening are available upon request by contacting the Holocaust Resource Center.