Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit Grand Opening Reception

Join us to commemorate the Grand Opening of the Americans and the Holocaust Traveling Exhibit. Reception will begin at 4pm in the Friends of the Library Room with remarks by Dr. Larry Nash White, MLS CEO; the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City; Professor Michelle Brockmeier, Rose State College; Holocaust Survivor Eva Unterman and the Interfaith Alliance. Special speaker, Eva Unterman, will speak in the 46th Star Auditorium at 5pm. Light refreshments will be served and guided tours of the exhibit will be available. Event is free and open to all!

This is the first event to commemorate the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibit that will be on display at the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library (300 Park Ave) from January 5-February 12. The traveling exhibit is presented by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.