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Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II

Laramie County Library 2200 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne, WY, United States

July 19–August 28 Library Hours Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II Smithsonian poster exhibition traces the story of Japanese national and Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the people who survived it. Based on an original exhibition at the National Museum of American History, the Righting a Wrong poster exhibition encourages viewers to engage in ...

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Americans and the Holocaust

Laramie County Library 2200 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne, WY, United States

July 19–August 28 Library Hours Laramie County Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. Based on extensive new research of that ...

Beyond Heart Mountain: Japanese Americans’ Experiences During WWII

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Gain insight into the multi-faceted and harrowing experiences of Japanese Americans during WWII with a presentation from Alan O’Hashi, author and producer/director of Beyond Heart Mountain, a film and book that detail his and his family’s life and experiences in Cheyenne during this time. As part of the library’s programming for Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, ...

Brown Bag Book Club (Pine Bluffs)

Pine Bluffs Branch 110 East 2nd St, Pine Bluffs, WY, United States

Looking for a great book to read, fun with friends, and a way to meet your Summer Reading Challenge goal? Then this club is for you! We will be reading Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury which ties into themes and concepts detailed in Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display at Laramie ...

Friday Morning Matinee: Americans and the Holocaust

Pine Bluffs Branch 110 East 2nd St, Pine Bluffs, WY, United States

Head to the Pine Bluffs Branch Library for a showing of the 1942 classic movie, Casablanca (rated PG). This movie is a recommended film from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is part of the library’s programming for Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display at Laramie County Library in Cheyenne. Starring Humphrey Bogart ...

Teen Book Discussion: They Called Us Enemy (RSVP Required)

Sage Room - 2nd Floor 2200 Pioneer Ave - 2nd Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Join us for a discussion on the graphic novel They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, as we examine the book’s themes and consider concepts from the Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display. We will take a look at Wyoming’s own role in interning Japanese citizens at Heart Mountain, and the impact it had ...

Seizure of Power: The Rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, 1920-1933

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Join us for the first program in a series of expert presentations from Dr. Adam Blackler, Ph.D. and Associate Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, all of which will provide context and historical background for the themes and concepts presented in Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display. The Weimar Republic (1919-1933)—Germany’s first ...

We Fought Back: Stories and Songs of Physical and Spiritual Resistance During the Shoah (Holocaust)

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

As it became clear by at least 1942 that the ultimate goal of the Nazi regime was the extermination of all Jews worldwide, Jews and their allies mounted many forms of physical, spiritual, and political resistance, particularly in the “ghettoes” (walled-in sections of cities the Nazis had created), extermination and work camps, and forests throughout Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and elsewhere. ...

Nazi Germany and the Racial State: ‘Cumulative Radicalization’ and the Twisted Road to Auschwitz

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Join us for the second program in a series of expert presentations from Dr. Adam Blackler, Ph.D. and Associate Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, all of which will provide context and historical background for the themes and concepts presented in Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display. Racism and antisemitism did not ...

Jewish Genealogy

Sunflower Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 3rd Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

As part of the library’s programming for Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, this class will give you a start in researching your Jewish ancestors in records found in the United States, Europe, and Israel. We will cover resources such as Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, and JewishGen.org. We will also explore information located in libraries, archives, and vital record ...

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The True Story of an American Couple’s Rescue Mission in Nazi Germany

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Steve Pressman has brought the incredible true story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to the small screen in his Emmy-nominated HBO documentary 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus and to bookshelves with his acclaimed book 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany. As part of the library’s programming ...

‘Twilight of the Gods’: Defeat, Memory, and Legacy of World War II and the Holocaust

Cottonwood Room 2200 Pioneer Ave - 1st Floor, Cheyenne, WY, United States

Join us for the final program in a series of expert presentations from Dr. Adam Blackler, Ph.D. and Associate Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, all of which will provide context and historical background for the themes and concepts presented in Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display. In 1945, Europe offered a ...