'Surviving the Plan': Holocaust photo exhibit When Jerry Casciano aims the lens of hisHasselblad camera, he delves deep into the heart of his subject. Casciano'smost recent exhibit, "Surviving the Plan," documents the power of survival of Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz, Treblinka and theWarsaw Ghetto. At left: Margit with a photo of her parents, who were separated from her in Auschwitz. She never saw them again. At right: Edith remembers hiding in a small crawl space with her father, mother and sister. Each night the rats would try to peck at her father's bald head. So every evening before going to sleep, Edith would cover her father's head with her scarf. The exhibit opened April 6 and runs through April 30 at the Ruth Hyman Jewish Community Center's Gallery on Grant, Deal Park. The exhibit consists of 20 photos of Treblinka andAuschwitz and 15 photos of survivors, all New Jersey residents. The stories of each survivor are told briefly in captions accompanying each photo.One survivor named Sam, a cabinetmaker by trade, tells the story of how he was taken under the wing of anAuschwitz guard and asked tomake cabinets in the guard's home, in exchange for bread. The guard finallymade good on his promise for bread, tossing the bread to the prisoner while simultaneously kicking himviolently in the face. The idea for the exhibit is rooted in the photographer's childhood, from the stories his father told him of Dachau. The late Jerry Casciano Sr. was one of the first U.S. military officers to liberate the camp, and the haunting memories of what he saw therewere part of the oral history passed on to his son. "I always knew I would visit there one day," said Casciano, Rumson, who spent threeweeks visiting the camps in 2004, plus nearly two months photographing the survivors back in New Jersey. Acommercial photographer for 30 years, Casciano also works in political campaign photography; he studied under Ansel Adams. Gallery on Grant is located at the JCC, 100 Grant Ave. Walk-in gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call the JCC at (732) 531-9100. Sam, a cabinetmaker by trade, was taken under the wing of an Auschwitz guard and asked to make cabinets in the guard's home, in exchange for bread. The guard finally made good on his promise, tossing the bread to the prisoner while simultaneously kicking him violently in the face.