Traveling Exhibit

"A Reason to Remember" is divided into eight sections which show how the lives of the five families were changed.  These sample panels show the details from the exhibit. There are many photographs and documents as well as personal testimony.

You may print these panels as 8 1/2" x 11" documents.  Please remember they are only a sample of information from the exhibit and that seeing all 27 panels together at actual exhibit size is a much different experience than looking at smaller versions.

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• Life before the Nazis: How the families lived before the Nazis came to power. How the families lived before the Nazis came to power.
• Rise of Racism: The beginning of segregation and isolation for the Jews in the village set in the overall context of what was happening in Germany.
• Kristallnacht: How Kristallnacht  and its aftermath affected the village.
• Prohibited to Work: Detailed illustrations of how the individuals were affected by a series of laws. It included being prohibited from doing business to turning in their radios (we have the receipt for the radios) and  extra clothing
• Fate of the Families:  What happened to each of the family members---who escaped and who did not.
• Nazi Policy of Genocide:  Broadens the story of Roth to show what happened all over Europe to both the Jewish victims and the non-Jewish victims
• Why Remember?: The final panel includes a quote from Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing". There are also images of other occurrences of hatred and discrimination from places besides Germany as well as different times in history.

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