UCI Libraries presents Americans and the Holocaust Exhibition Event Series: A Journey Through the Holocaust ♥

UCI Libraries presents Americans and the Holocaust Exhibition Event Series 

In conjunction with the American Library Association and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition Americans and the Holocaust, the UCI Libraries’ Americans and the Holocaust Exhibition Event Series explores antisemitism, extremism, and the power of human connection.

Guests are encouraged to visit the traveling exhibition located in the lobby of the Jack Langson Library (LL Building) during regular library hours.

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A Journey Through the Holocaust

Thursday, February 10, 2022
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
This event will be held on Zoom.

UCI Libraries invites you to spend the evening with Holocaust survivor Solange Pullman-Fisch. We extend a special thanks to the Jewish Federation of Orange County for their support of this program.

Solange Pullman-Fisch was born in 1935 in Sedan, a town in Northeastern France located near the Belgium border. When Germany began to invade France in 1940, Solange and her mother fled Nancy, the northeastern town in France where they resided. They traveled from town to town seeking refuge, and with the help of the local townspeople, who risked their own lives, they were kept hidden and warned to move on when the Nazis approached. Eventually, Solange her mother made it to a small farming village in Le Grand-Bourg where the mayor helped hide them for five years until World War II ended.

Solange is one of many Holocaust survivors who call Orange County home.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. A Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants.

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The American Library Association and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition Americans and the Holocaust examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide. Guests will have the opportunity to explore a complementary exhibit Snapshots of Orange County in the 1940s: Spaces, Places, Faces curated by UCI Libraries, which provides further insight into different Orange County communities’ experiences through World War II.

Click here to learn more about Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit Event Series presented by UCI Libraries. Click here to learn more about supporting the UCI Libraries.