Meredith Public Library to host exhibit, film series on the Holocaust

MEREDITH — The Americans and the Holocaust exhibit opens at the Meredith Public Library, 91 Main Street, on Tuesday, July 29.  The Library will be hosting a film series related to the exhibit on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Aug. 2, 9 and 16.  Following each film there will be a discussion.  The library is screening these films with a goal to provide audiences with greater insight into the social, political, and cultural contexts of the Holocaust and antisemitism by connecting film narratives to historical events.  Popcorn and other refreshments will be served. 

Aug. 2 will be “The Great Dictator” (1940). Nominated for five Academy Awards, Charlie Chaplin's “The Great Dictator,” a satirical comedy about Hitler, Nazism and antisemitism, was his first sound film.  

Aug. 9 will be “Casablanca” (1942). Winning Academy Awards for best picture, director and adapted screenplay, “Casablanca” tells the story of Rick, an American expatriate, who must choose between the woman he loves and helping her husband, a partisan-resistance fighter, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Aug. will be 16 “Gentleman's Agreement” (1947). Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning best picture, best supporting actress, and best director, “Gentleman's Agreement” stars Gregory Peck as a journalist who goes undercover as a Jewish man in order to write an article about antisemitism in New York. 

For more information, visit meredithlibrary.org.