Holocaust Collection & Exhibits
The Northwest Reno Library is home to the Shia Szrut Holocaust Collection, which consists of more than 2,400 fiction and nonfiction books, films, and maps. The gallery space adjacent to the collection regularly hosts relevant exhibits.
Shia Szrut Holocaust Collection
The Shia Szrut Holocaust Collection provides the public with resources to understand the Holocaust: its perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and rescuers. It reminds us that we have the ability and responsibility to make wise choices. We must learn to respect and honor human dignity and difference.
This collection was established through a grant from the Ronald and Judy Mack Religious Education Foundation in memory of Judy Mack's father, Shia Szrut, a victim of the Holocaust.
Current Exhibit: France and the Holocaust
January 7–April 17
This powerful exhibition showcases rare French artifacts loaned by the Nevada Center for Humanity’s Nevada Holocaust Museum and is being presented in the United States for the first time. This collection invites visitors to examine the complex and often conflicting choices faced by ordinary individuals during World War II.
Upcoming Events
The Northwest Reno Library is one of 40 libraries nationwide selected to participate in the Yiddish Book Center’s Public Libraries Program on the theme "Between Two Worlds: Exploring Jewish Culture and Religion through Yiddish Literature." Through this selective program, the Yiddish Book Center provides grants, resources, and training to public libraries across the country to host reading groups and related programming to explore how Yiddish literature can provide a springboard for powerful conversations about religion, assimilation, identity, and immigration.
The library will organize a reading group this August to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in translation. The Yiddish titles in the book discussion group include: Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem (translated by Aliza Shevrin), The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga by Moyshe Kulbak (translated by Hillel Halkin), A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodowsky (translated by Anita Norich). The group will also read a fourth title, which will be selected by the Yiddish Book Group as it begins.
