Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit

Branch Location: Central Library
Address: 600 Soledad San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: (210) 207-2500
Room: Gallery
Event Type(s): Exhibit
Staff Contact Name: Morgan Yoshimura
Staff Contact Number/Email: morgan.yoshimura@sanantonio.gov / 210-207-2624
Audience: Adults,Older Adults
Additional Info: Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association.Americans and the Holocaust was made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine. Additional major funding was provided by the Bildners — Joan & Allen z”l, Elisa Spungen & Rob, Nancy & Jim; and Jane and Daniel Och. The Museum's exhibitions are also supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990

Holocaust history raises important questions about what the international community, including the United States, could have done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and it's assault on Europe's Jews. The United States alone could not have prevented the Holocaust, but more could have been done to save some of the six million Jews who were killed. The Americans and the Holocaust exhibition examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans' responses to Nazism, war, and genocide.