Zach S. Henderson Library Hosts a Traveling Exhibit on the Holocaust

Georgia Southern University’s Henderson Library hosted the “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit on the Statesboro Campus for more than a month beginning Feb. 1 and ending March 11. The exhibit is an educational initiative of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. It examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide during the 1930s and 40s. The Henderson Library is among the 50 U.S. libraries selected to host the exhibition, which began traveling to libraries in 2020.

“We are so proud to have been selected from a pool of more than 250 applicants to host this important and powerful exhibition,” said Dean of University Libraries Lisa Carmichael, Ph.D. “We were excited to partner with our University faculty in a series of panel discussions and to host field trips with local schools as well. The exhibition challenged people not only to ask ‘what would I have done?’ but also, ‘what will I do?’”

The library also held a community opening and reception, and a series of special events related to the exhibition on both the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses.