Opening Reception November 9th, 2007 at 3 pm in commemoration of Kristallnacht, with an Opening Address to be delivered by Dr. Wes Leid, WSU Honors College.

Beginning on October 15th, 2007, The Holland and Terrell Libraries will be hosting "Neighbors who Disappeared", a traveling exhibit created by Czech youths to examine the fates of Jewish children and their families who vanished from Czech villages during World War II.

The exhibit consists of 19 mixed media panels through which the children bring to light the forgotten lives of local village inhabitants. Czech schoolchildren studied family records, archival materials, and interviewed local Holocaust survivors in conducting their research.

Originally conceived in 2000, the exhibit gives a voice to those who were murdered during the Holocaust, bringing the tragedies suffered by the Czech Jewish Settlement to light, on a highly personal level.

The exhibit will be on display in the Terrell Library Atrium, during regular library hours, from October 15th to November 21st, 2007. An Opening Reception will be held at 3 pm on Friday, November 9th, in commemoration of Kristallnacht. Dr. Wes Leid of the WSU Honors College will be speaking at this event. All are invited to attend.

The Neighbors Who Disappeared project has been conceived by the The Education and Culture Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague, in partnership with the civic association Zapomenut/The Forgotten Ones and in collaboration with the Hidden Child organization, the Terezn Memorial and the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic.