Alaska News August 31, 2024

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Resurrection Bay Historical Society

A traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Americans and the Holocaust, will be in the Library & Museum Community Room through Oct. 3. After the Aug. 30 opening reception, the exhibition will include the following presentations: Sept. 5 at 12 pm – Dr. Rebecca Erbelding will explore the immigration system, the Jewish refugee crisis, and the hope and ultimate failure of the Alaska Plan, which had proposed to bring refugees to the Alaska Territory. Sept. 11 at 12 pm – “Roles of Individuals” will look at the landscape of information dissemination during the 1930s-40s in the U.S. Sept. 14 at 2 pm – “Jim Crow and the Olympics” will explore the historical parallels between systemic racism in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. Sept. 18 at 3 pm – Curator Allison Stacy will present “Primary Sources & Museum Collections” with a look at two exhibits on display in the Seward Museum. Allie will also lead tours of the museum workroom to give visitors a close-up look at artifacts and cover the basics of researching in the archives.

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