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Lynn Hill, above right, reads an exhibit with the oddest of display cases: a bus window.
This museum on wheels, or BUS-eum, rolled into Columbia on Monday, displaying its World War II exhibit, “VANISHED,” at Columbia Public Library. Lynn visited the exhibit, which contains artifacts belonging to German Americans interned in the U. S. between 1941 and 1948, with her husband, Chris.
- BUS-eum 2, a museum on wheels, visited Columbia today. The exhibit was called "Vanished."
- These ice skates belong to Arthur D. Jacobs, one of about 15,000 German-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II. From age 10 to 15, Jacobs, the American-born son of German immigrants, lived in internment camps in Ellis Island, N.Y., and Crystal City, Texas.
TRACES, a nonprofit educational organization based in St. Paul, Minn., has been taking BUS-eums on tours across the Midwest since 2004. The group had planned to send a different bus than BUS-eum 2, right, but BUS-eum 1’s engine blew.
Instead, tour guide Irving Kellman said, information cards from the exhibit, “Behind Barbed Wire,” were moved to BUS-eum 2. “Behind Barbed Wire” may have special interest to Missouri residents: It tells the story of Midwesterners held as prisoners of war in Nazi Germany.
Readers can find out more about the organization at its Web site, traces.org.
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