Sevier County Public Library to host Americans and the Holocaust exhibition
April 16, 2024; 8:58 p.m.

SEVIERVILLE, TN - The Sevier County Public Library was one of 50 libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust exhibition. The traveling exhibition examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans' responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

More than 150 libraries applied for the 50 spots; sites were chosen through a competitive, peer-reviewed application process that considered a demonstrated interest in and need for quality Holocaust education, among other factors. Selected libraries serve a diverse range of communities, from Seward Community Library & Museum in Alaska, to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, to the Heart of America Library in Rugby, North Dakota. The exhibition will cover wide distances, traveling 5,000 miles from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to Meredith Public Library in New Hampshire.

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The 1,100-square-foot exhibition examines various aspects of American society: the government, the military, refugee aid organizations, the media and the general public. Drawing on a remarkable collection of primary sources from the 1930s and '40s, the exhibition tells the stories of Americans who acted in response to Nazism. It provides a portrait of American society that shows how the Depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism shaped responses to Nazism and the Holocaust.

For more information, please visit Sevier County Public Library or call 865-365-1425.

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