Torah scrolls rescued from the Nazis, handmade silver menoras, and the striped uniforms worn by inmates of concentration camps are now on display at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany as part of “From Memory to History,” a tribute to local Holocaust survivors.

Between now and Nov. 22, the precious Judaica will be exhibited in glass cases together with grim memorabilia and panels of family photographs that tell stories of genocide and survival.

The pieces, many of them from Poland, are on loan from Edward Mosberg, a resident of Union who survived internment at the Majdanek concentration camp.

Others were donated by the family of the late Philip Newman. They include two Torah scrolls — one rescued from the Nazis, the other with the parchment removed from its rollers so that it could be more easily stashed away from enemies of the Jews.

Another item on display in the campus atrium is a handmade wooden carving of the Ten Commandments once used atop the ark at a synagogue in Gorlice, Poland.

Other pieces include an ornate silver case for holding an etrog during the festival of Sukkot and two hinged “traveling menoras” with compartments for burning oil during the eight days of Hanukka.

The exhibit, on display for the second straight year, serves to “highlight the vibrant Jewish culture in pre-Nazi Europe” and celebrate the lives of local survivors, said Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of UJC MetroWest.

Gov. Jon Corzine has been invited to address the exhibit’s opening reception at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19.

According to Wind, the artifacts added this year have created a “new and improved” presentation.

After the exhibit’s debut in 2005, she said, “we got such a wonderful response from teachers, students, and the general public that we felt obliged to bring it back this year. The purpose is to meet the demands of the community. We are hoping that, as in the past, synagogue groups and church groups and civic organizations will see this as a field trip to see what we’ve created.”

Hundreds of adults and children, Jews and non-Jews alike, came to the campus to view the exhibit last year.

“It is about the resilience of the human spirit. It’s about the past. But it’s not just about the horrors of the Holocaust,” Wind said. “It is about the people who endured it, who lost family but went on to live fulfilling lives. There are lessons that this can teach all people, but particularly young people.”

Among last year’s visitors was a group from a juvenile detention facility, “and it resonated very strongly for them,” said Wind. “Prisoners in general realize they can have miserable lives but can overcome the past. That was meaningful not just for those students but for every student.

“We are all living in a time of fear that our lives may be taken away from us in some terrible way. We teach students how quickly a democratic society can devolve into a totalitarian society that destroys itself and so many other innocent victims in the process.”

Connections between past and present will also be made at “Subverting Science,” a daylong conference on the Aidekman campus scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 24. Wind said it “will concentrate on how the Nazis subverted sciences for their own nefarious purposes — with medical experiments and…the whole idea of physics as a ‘Jewish science.’ The Nazis got rid of all of their physicists, enabling the United States to benefit.”

Carol Simon of Millburn, a volunteer who has worked closely with Wind, said her involvement in the project “has a lot to do with the children and teaching them to stand up for what’s right, respecting each other and respecting others’ rights as well.

“There is no survivor in this exhibit who was not helped by someone. As the students go through the exhibit, we teach them that one individual can make a significant difference, and how you must respect your own voice, because your voice tells you what’s right.”

The exhibit is free of charge and is being made possible in part by a gift from the family foundation of Philip and Betsy Darivoff of Millburn. People wishing further information can telephone the Holocaust Council at 973-929-3194.