Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries, and the only library in North Dakota, selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

Dina Butcher in conversation with her daughter Marnie Piehl will discuss her family's past. From a letter Dina wrote: Much is being written about Auschwitz, the “showcase” of the Holocaust where 1.1 million, mostly Jews, were killed, as 75 years have passed since the Russians liberated it. My grandmother, Goldina Schoenthal, was 65 when she was sent there from hiding in Holland along with her three daughters, son-in-law and two grandchildren in 1943. My father had begged her to sail with them when he, my mother and three siblings aged 7, 4 and 2 escaped from Germany in November 1939.