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Holocaust

When McMinn County banned ‘Maus,’ one Franklin mom and her kid started reading it for book club

Rose Gilbert

March 10, 2022

From left to right: Courtenay Rogers, Claire, AJ and Catie Fein

When Catie Fein and her eighth-grader, AJ, heard that the McMinn County school board had voted to ban Maus, they decided to fight back. So, they founded their own book club to read the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir together in Catie’s home in Franklin. 

Filed Under: Education, Features, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: book bans, Holocaust, Maus

Nashville Symphony Performs With ‘Violins Of Hope,’ Giving Voice To History Of The Holocaust

Emily Siner

March 23, 2018

Listen Players with the Nashville Symphony are giving up their personal instruments for a concert this weekend and instead playing what are called the Violins of Hope — a collection of about two dozen string instruments that were once owned by Jews who survived the Holocaust. 

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Holocaust, Nashville Symphony

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