The Holocaust “was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators and it was a process that evolved between 1933 and 1945” (USHMM). The Nazi regime also defined other groups as enemies, who they considered threats to the nation. How was the Holocaust possible? What were the “stages of destruction,” beginning in 1933, and how did the aims of the Nazi regime inform military strategy and plans for expansion? At every stage there was resistance in many forms, but the Nazi regime, allies, and its collaborators waged a brutal war in their attempt to create an empire based on the idea of racial superiority and antisemitism.
Join us November 14 from 6:00-7:00 PM in the Library Community Room as we host Dr. Jennifer Lynn, Professor of History at Montana State University, Billings. Dr. Lynn will discuss the stages that led to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe and explore similar American cultural influences that had significantly negative impacts on Jews in this country and those seeking asylum in it.
Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association.