The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945
March 21 - May 1, 2022
The Fletcher Free Library is honored to host an exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County called The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945. The exhibit is comprised of 40 panels on the Nazi Holocaust. The Courage to Remember has been exhibited on six continents and seen by millions of people.
Exhibit Tours with Aaron Goldberg on Tuesdays at 4pm, and by appointment. Contact Barbara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
Starting March 21st, the public may tour the exhibit displayed throughout the Library during our normal hours.
An opening reception was held on Thursday, March 24th at 6:30pm in the Main Reading Room. The reception featured opening statements by Mayor Miro Weinberger and the Library Director, Mary Danko, and a keynote address by Ambassador Madeleine May Kunin, with an introduction by Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale.
Watch the video below for more on the exhibit.
Associated Programming
March 24, 6:30 PM Exhibit Opening Reception Main Reading Room
March 28, 4:00 PM Book Discussion of MAUS by Art Spiegelman Pickering Room
March 29, 4:00 PM Anne Frank House VR Experience Pickering Room
March 29, 6:30 PM Films of the German Occupation, French Resistance and Collaboration with Rick Winston Pickering
March 30, 6:00 PM Film Screening of Au Revoir Les Enfants Community Room
March 31, 3:30 PM Anne Frank House VR Experience Pickering Room
April 6, 6:00 PM Film Screening: Final Account Community Room
April 7, 6:30 PM All I Didn’t Know: Author Talk with Alexander Wolff Main Reading Room
April 12, 6:30 PM Tales of an Accidental Historian:What My Mother Didn’t Know about Her Own Holocaust Survival
with Author K. Heidi Fishman Main Reading Room
April 13, 6:30 PM Book Discussion of Endpapers by Alexander Wolff Virtual Program
April 19, 6:00 PM Book Discussion of Salt To the Sea by Ruta Septys Pickering Room
April 25, 4:00 PM Anne Frank House VR Experience Pickering Room
April 26, 6:30PM Jewish Experience Through Creativity Pickering Room
April 27, 6:30PM Premier Screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening... Fletcher Room
April 28, 7:00 PM Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Main Reading Room
Thank You to Our Sponsor:
Northfield Savings Bank
Thank you to Our Partners:
Vermont Holocaust Memorial
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
The Media Factory