December 17, 2024 9:20 a.m. 

The “Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries”, is in its final week at the Roseburg Public Library.

Residents can see it through Thursday. A library release said the exhibition examines Americans’ responses to Nazism and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It asks, “what did Americans know, and what more could have been done”?

Library Director Kris Wiley said the exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association, also presents stories of individual Americans, some of whom took actions that went against the grain at the time and dared to rescue Jews from Europe.

The traveling exhibition began by touring to 50 U.S. libraries from 2021 to 2023. Due to widespread interest from libraries and communities around the country, a second tour was developed and is continuing through 2026.

Visit the library from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to see the exhibition before it concludes.

More information about the Roseburg Public Library is at: https://www.cityofroseburg.org/departments/libraryhttps://www.cityofroseburg.org/departments/library