![]() and each morning according to Mullins Library hours - which can be found online at - while tours can be arranged at. The exhibit will be open nightly until 6 p.m. Individuals can access the exhibition on their own or take guided tours, she said. In fact, only in the spring of 2021 did the Arkansas Legislature pass a bill requiring Holocaust education in public schools. 8 at Mullins Library, the main research library for the university and the largest library on campus.īringing this exhibition to Arkansas is critical, because "our state hasn't historically had the strongest Holocaust education," Flynn said. The exhibition opens Thursday and will be on display through Dec. Roughly 6 million Jews were murdered during the genocide by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, but Romani people, Poles, Ukrainians, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, Black people, people with disabilities, communists and gay individuals were also targeted in the systematic mass killing. ![]() It also highlights the individuals and groups who did try to help refugees, although "unfortunately there were too few." It considers the myriad factors that shaped American response, from a philosophy of isolationism to the strain of the Great Depression to restrictive immigration laws that had been on the books for decades, she said. The exhibit "is about posing questions and promoting critical thinking and discussions, not conclusions." The traveling exhibit "covers a lot of the content and big events of the Holocaust and World War II people may be familiar with, but the lens is reactions and responses from Americans" to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, Flynn said. "This is not Europe, but what was happening here." "We decided it was really important to create a travel version of this for people who can't make it to, because this ties together American history and Holocaust history in a way that can really speak to the American public," said JoAnna Wasserman, education initiatives manager at the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. and the Holocaust," a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein that premiered on PBS earlier this year. The exhibit at the museum in Washington helped inspire "The U.S. It's the "traveling version of an exhibit" created at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 and "gives people a chance to have that experience even if they never get to go to Washington," Flynn said. The exhibition is an educational initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association, a national organization that's been providing resources for library and information professionals to transform their communities through programs and services. The exhibit is stopping in only 50 locations, and the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville was selected as the spot for Arkansas, said Kara Flynn, education and engagement archivist, Special Collections, University Libraries at UA-Fayetteville. Mullins Library, the only time the exhibit will be in Arkansas during its tour of the country. FAYETTEVILLE - "Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries" will open next week at the David W.
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