Evansville libraries to host Holocaust Remembrance Day events Saturday

Thomas B. Langhorne, Evansville Courier & Press
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EVANSVILLE — Two branches of Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library will host Holocaust Remembrance Day events on Saturday.

Saturday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, so designated by the United Nations General Assembly. It is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camps in 1945.

EVPL Stringtown will feature Some Were Neighbors, an image exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, from 1:30 p.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.

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"Members of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will perform while library users view the exhibit which, according to the description, 'asks how something like the Holocaust could happen, and empowers each one of us, underscoring that our choices do matter,'" said an EVPL statement on the event.

EVPL Oaklyn will host an all-day event from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday that will include a book display, testimonies and information about local connections to Holocaust survivors. Oaklyn and Stringtown libraries also will feature "special book displays related to the Holocaust," according to EVPL.

The local public library system reported that the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive at Central Library holds DVD-ROM recordings of more than 115 interviews of Holocaust survivors and witnesses from Indiana, Kentucky and parts of Illinois. The collection was created in partnership with CYPRESS (Committee to Promote Respect in Schools).

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