Vincennes University’s Shake Library is hosting Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. The exhibit opened today.

It explores the factors that influenced American responses to Nazism, war, and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped public and government actions during that time.

Jamie Cox is the Public Service Librarian with Shake and says the VU library is one of 50 libraries in the nation participating in the tour of the exibit. ” You’ll find out a lot of information about what Americans knew at this time.  Did Americans help Jewish refugees? Why did Americans go to war? How Americans responded to the Holocaust? Those are all topics that are covered throughout this exhibit.”

The display is open to the public during regular hours today through April 28th.