ADA, Okla. (KTEN)  — The Ada Public Library has been selected to host a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust next year.

The Americans and the Holocaust presentation has already been featured at 50 libraries across the nation. Ada will be one of 50 additional stops.

"This is going to focus on what was happening in the United States, as well as all the way down to what was happening in Pontotoc County and Ada during this time period," said Ada library director Jolene Poore.

The exhibit is co-sponsored by the American Library Association and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The museum defines the Holocaust as "the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa."

"Not everyone is able to come to Washington," said Rebecca Erbelding, a historian at the Holocaust museum. "The biggest takeaway that people can come away from this is that Americans had information about the Holocaust as it was happening. Not everybody believed it. Not everybody was paying attention."

The Americans and the Holocaust exhibit won't be a small attraction, either, featuring an 1,100 square foot presentation on the second floor of the Ada Public Library that staff will have to construct, and some on the team will even have to travel to Washington to receive some training.

"What if it was happening now? What would I do now? Just to spur thought and conversation, to help prevent something like this from happening in the future. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is going to partner with us and provide us some information," Poore said. "We are going to be putting together curriculum kits and book kits for teachers to be able to use in the classroom."

The exhibit will be on display in Ada starting December 2, 2025 and will continue through January 13, 2026.