THROUGH OCT. 7 AMERICANS AND THE HOLOCAUST Among 50 libraries across the U.S., Gonzaga University's Foley Library was selected to host this traveling exhibit from.
The "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibition tells two stories. The first is a harrowing one with which we are all too familiar: The systematic persecution.
Americans and the Holocaust: Remembering Our Past to Inform Our Future Among 50 libraries across the U.S., Gonzaga University’s Foley Library was selected to host a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Museum that explores how Americans in the 1930s and ’40s responded to Nazism and the Holocaust. On display through Oct. 7, “Americans and the Holocaust” is on the library’s third floor. Using primary sources, the exhibit challenges long-held assumptions that most U.S. citizens at the time either didn’t know what was happening to Europe’s Jewish population, or did little to help. As part of the exhibit, the public can attend (or virtually stream) an event with one of Spokane’s celebrated heroes, 98-year-old Carla Peperzak. As a teen during the war, she joined the Dutch Resistance and helped save the lives of dozens by forging identity papers, publishing an underground newspaper and helping hide Jewish residents. University and