Traveling Exhibit - Press Kit

Press Release #6

“A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942” tells the personal story of the five Jewish families who lived in the small village of Roth. The exhibit introduces the families as they lived in 1933 and details what happened to them during the Nazi era.

Through the use of photographs, documents and personal testimonies, the exhibit illustrates how the relations between these families and their neighbors were systematically dismantled. The stark contrast between the ordinariness of their lives and the radical way in which their lives were changed by the Nazis and their collaborators through persecution and terror provokes questions about choices people made.

Visitors are engaged in a personal, intimate, and emotional way with the lives of Roth’s former Jewish residents and become well acquainted with the men, women, and children of the village.   History takes on a different meaning when the events are related to real people.

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