Some Were Neighbors
Choice, Human Behavior, and The Holocaust
A Self-Guided Exhibit
Belmont University
September 10th – December 8th, 2025
Belmont University Library – 1907 Belmont Blvd – Nashville, TN
This exhibit explores the vast difference in the ways ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of Hitler’s Germany. Neighbors made choices. Some acted with bold courage, while others stood idle as friends, neighbors, and colleagues were victimized. The focus of the exhibit is to offer Holocaust remembrance & education for students, faculty and members of the greater Nashville community. The exhibition is centered around a set of 21 large posters, provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, that share the story of the Holocaust and the role various groups within a community played during the violence.
