MEREDITH — What did Americans know? What more could we have done?

These questions are the jumping-off point of a traveling exhibit at the Meredith Public Library, titled "Americans and the Holocaust." The exhibit traces the pivotal years leading up to World War II, and the turbulent times of the 1940s war years.

The informative display opened on July 29, and will run through Thursday, Sept. 4, filling the upper exhibit space of the library. Should one expect to see graphic images of the concentration camps, that is not the case. While some photographs give the facts of the war, most of the text and images instead bring to light how Americans perceived what was happening in Europe, and the overall feeling in this country of avoiding the conflict.

“The exhibition is made possible through

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