University exhibit explores U.S. response to Holocaust

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A special exhibit at the University of Mississippi explores the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and ’40s.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit is installed at the J.D. Williams Library on The Ole Miss Campus. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

“Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is on display at the university’s J.D. Williams Library through Jan. 14.

The library is among 50 U.S. libraries hosting the exhibit.

The touring display is based on a special exhibition of the same name at the museum in Washington.

It began traveling to U.S. libraries in 2020. It arrived in Oxford on Dec. 1, 2021.

You can read more about the exhibit here.

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