October 29, 2024 3:20 a.m.
The Roseburg Public Library will host the “Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries” starting soon.
A city release said it will be on display between Thursday, November 7th and Thursday December 19th. Th exhibition examines American’s responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines what Americans knew and what more could have been done.
The exhibition – from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association – also presents stories of individual Americans, some of whom took action that went against the grain at the time and dared to rescue Jews from Europe.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the library will host three public programs that are free and open to the public. They will be held on Thursday evenings: November 14th, December 5th and December 12th, starting at 6:30 p.m. Get more information on each presentation at: https://www.cityofroseburg.org/departments/library/events
The library is open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays, and 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The library will be closed from Thursday, November 28th through Saturday, November 30th for the Thanksgiving holiday.