Two art collections will be displayed in the lobby of the McCoy. The first collection is six to eight violins from the Violins of Hope collection. The Violins of Hope is an international project that uses music to remember the Holocaust. It features a collection of stringed instruments, primarily violins, that were played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust and were later meticulously restored. These instruments are used in concerts, exhibitions, and educational programs to share the stories of the Holocaust and its impact.

The second collection is comprised of selected, reproduced art works of train survivor Ervin Abadi. Abadi made a number of ink and watercolor drawings detailing his labor battalion and concentration camp experiences. The work was published in an edition of 500 with Hungarian and English captions in 1946. The foreword of the book says, in part, “Let these drawings serve as proof of my everlasting gratitude towards those to whom I owe my life. … To the soldiers of the United States Army, particularly to our immediate liberators, those soldiers of the 9th regiment who first entered the village of Zilitz and gave us bread, milk, chocolate, and cigarettes….”