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“What Will I Do?” The Continued Impact of a Holocaust Exhibition at an Iowa Library

The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition on display. Credit: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

After seeing all the poignant imagery that is part of the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition, Joa LaVille had the strongest emotional reaction to … a pie chart. LaVille, youth services manager at the Marshalltown Public Library in Iowa, which received a grant to display the exhibition in 2022, was struck by a graphic illustrating the results of a 1938 public opinion poll.

Research Your Local Newspaper’s Holocaust Coverage

Photograph of two people looking at old newspapers on a computer. (On December 7, 2015, participants in History Unfolded gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, to search local newspaper archives.) Photograph courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust is a citizen history project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The project is inviting libraries to research local newspaper coverage on Holocaust-era events between 1933 and 1946 and submit relevant findings to the project’s database.

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