Spotlight Feature

Fighting the Fires of Hate:

   America and the Nazi Book Burnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Exhibition:

Rice Library is honored to host this traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Starting with the first incident on May 10, 1933, the exhibition chronicles the use of book burnings to suppress freedom of expression throughout Nazi Germany. Featuring documents, artifacts, and news coverage the displays explore how these burnings became utilized as an important, anti-Nazi symbol for Americans during World War II. It concludes with a discussion on the present-day implications of these practices.

To learn more about this and other traveling exhibits, please visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 

Visitor Information:

This free, public exhibit will be open February through March 21, 2010 in the 2nd Floor, Grand Reading Room of Rice Library during regular library hours.

For more information please contact Michael Slavkin, College of Education and Human Services, by phone: 812-464-1858 or by email: mslavkin@usi.edu

The exhibit has been sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana through funding from the Community of Scholars Fund and CYPRESS: The Committee to Promote Respect in Schools.

 

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