chicago. she s a curator with the holocaust museum. susie, thanks for being with us. first off, why is it so important to launch this project now? i think 20 years after we ve opened, we are looking at a diminishing survivor community, and this is the last chance we might have to speak with survivors of the holocaust. so the artifacts that we collect on the road these past six months are really the last groups of materials we will get from survivors. from that point on, we depend on the next generation. when we have no survivors, these artifacts are the things that will speak to us. and let s talk about some of these items, suusie. most of them have never been seen by the public before and have been made available exclusive to cnn. let s talk about the uniforms we have here. take a look. what can you tell us about the uniforms? the uniforms were worn by a father and son originally from germany.
travel is documented with stamps. it tells us how they got out. if they got out in 1938 or 1939. some of them got out as late as 1941. and susie, you also have some very personal items. it gives you chills when you think about this. a little girl s dress and a stuffed bunny. what do objects like this teach us about the holocaust? these objects are very personal images to people, and many of our survivors wait until later in their life to donate these objects because, for example, it s the one thing they carried with them or the first object that they had. in the case of the bunny, it was given to a child who was really very young and in the concentration camp. the bunny was made for her by another victim in the camp. for her, it s not only her memory but it s the first object she carried with. the blouse is a similar story. it came with a little girl when
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they were deported to the cracow ghetto and from there worked for oscar schindler. the uniforms were put away, and only after the son passed away did the uniforms come to light. so it was amazing that nieces of the gentlemen had found the uniforms, and they chose to donate them at our new york venue. with each artifact comes just an incredible story, susie, as you said there. you ve also collected passports. what can we learn from the names and the photos in these documents? the passports are interesting because generally they were issued after 1938, and they were issued most passports were issued to the general public. in these cases, these passports have the middle name sara or israel, indicating the person that was the bearer was a jew. that gives us a the lot of insight. also, within the passport, their
0 all right. you can see more of anthony s adventure in the congo on tonight s season finale of anthony bourdain parts unknown tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. we ve got much more ahead on cnn sunday morning which starts right now. good morning, everyone. i m pamela brown. nice to have you here with us. we begin this morning with breaking news out of california. we now know the name of the suspected gunman in the rampage that left four people dead friday in santa monica. take a look right here looking at a 2006 year book photo of john zawahri. police say he began his shooting spree at a house where he killed his father samir and his brother chris. stephanie elam is in santa monica this morning. stephanie, what more have police said about the gunman. reporter: pamela, this is a story we ve been following to get any details we can out of this. one other thing we believe, according to police, is that john zawahri, he actually set the house on fire before he killed his brothe