by PegNews wire

The exhibit features 15 narrative display panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio and DVD documentaries, artifacts and more.

DALLAS — Few people know the story today, but during World War II nearly half a million German, Italian, and Japanese prisoners of war were held in the United States; including thousands at more than 70 POW camps in Texas. This unusual story is brought to life in Held on the Homefront, a traveling exhibit on display from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 on the Dallas Central Library Plaza.

The exhibit is housed in a 40-foot school bus converted into a mobile classroom and museum by the TRACES Center for History and Culture, a non-profit educational organization. The exhibit features 15 narrative display panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio and DVD documentaries, artifacts and more. As of Labor Day weekend 2009, this exhibit has embarked on a two year tour schedule to visit both large and small communities from Minnesota to Texas, then Florida, and by June 2011, Boston.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Source: Dallas Public Library