The Chattanooga Public Library will be postponing the travelling exhibition Americans and the Holocaust. Initially scheduled to open January 2021, the exhibit will now be coming to Chattanooga in January 2023.
Sponsored by the American Library Association and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this exhibition will begin its tour of U.S. libraries in December 2020. CPL was chosen to be one of 50 host libraries of 250 that applied. Based on the special exhibition of the same name at the Museum in Washington, D.C., it is designed to examine the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
Sheldon Owens, CPL’s interim assistant director and head of Local History and Genealogy, said, “While we could have created a virtual experience, both our staff and our partners agreed that rescheduling was the right decision. Our goal in hosting this exhibition is to provide a unique and thought-provoking learning experience to our region, and postponing the date will ensure our success in offering the best exhibition possible.”
The department has also made remote access to Ancestry.com available to library cardholders. Additionally, Librarian and Historian Suzette Raney teamed up with Chattanooga and Hamilton County’s Historian Linda Moss Mines to host Historical Footsteps, a virtual history Zoom meetup every Tuesday at 5 p.m. More information about that program and others can be found at chattlibrary.org/events.
For more information about CPL’s current services and programs, as well as future announcements, visit chattlibrary.org.