Program Description
Event Details
Please join us at an Opening Reception for the Americans and the Holocaust Traveling Exhibition.
The exhibition will be open for viewing beginning at 5:30pm.
At 6:30pm Michael Jacobs, Curator for the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience will give a keynote address and introduce our parallel exhibition, New Americans in a New Land.
This exhibition explores the life of one Holocaust survivor who rebuilt his future in New Orleans. Centered on the story of Dr. Joseph Sperling and his wife, Anni Frind, the exhibit features artifacts from Joseph’s internment, personal photographs, and items from the couple’s new life in America. Together, their story reflects resilience, love, and the enduring legacy of the city’s New Americans.
The remainder of the time will allow visitors to interact with both exhibitions.
Light refreshments will be served.
For complete information about Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries, please visit myscpl.org/aath.
Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association.
This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine. Additional major funding was provided by the Bildners—Joan & Allen z”l, Elisa Spungen & Rob, Nancy & Jim; and Jane and Daniel Och. The Museum’s exhibitions are also supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990.