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First Thursday Book Discussion

"The Unwanted"

Join us this month to discuss "The Unwanted" by Michael Dobbs, an intimate account of a small village on the edge of the German Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Adults. Please register to receive a free copy of the book. A part of the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit.

Join us this month to discuss "The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between" by Michael Dobbs. This book is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the German Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis.

Adults. Please register to receive a free copy of the book. 

(See all programming related to the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit.)

Americans and the Holocaust: This event is part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library's programming related to "Americans and the Holocaust," a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. This exhibit is an educational initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association and will be on display at the Columbia Public Library from February 9 through March 16.

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