Quincy University’s Brenner Library will host the national traveling exhibition “Americans and the Holocaust” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the American Library Association, on display from Oct. 29 through Dec. 4, with group tours available through Dec. 2.

The exhibition’s opening keynote presentation will take place at 6 p.m. Oct. 29 in Brenner Library featuring Daniel Greene, Ph.D., exhibition curator and adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. Greene will discuss the domestic conditions in the United States — including economic depression, isolationism and antisemitism — that shaped Americans’ response to atrocities abroad.

“One of the most important aspects of ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to take a broad, panoramic look at American society during the 1930s and ’40s — including responses to Nazism by the U.S. government, the media, American culture, individuals, organizations and more. No exhibition has ever taken such a wide-ranging approach to Americans’ responses to Nazism and the Holocaust,” said Greene. “We hope that students and others who see the exhibition will be engaged by learning about the responses of individuals, institutions and the U.S. government, as well as exploring how the events of the war and the Holocaust affected communities across the United States.”

Greene originally curated the exhibition for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., which opened in 2018 to commemorate the museum’s 25th anniversary. The exhibition inspired “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a documentary film directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein that aired on PBS in September 2022.

More information about “Americans and the Holocaust” is available at https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/traveling-exhibitions/americans-and-the-holocaust.