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Memorial Library Exhibit Celebrates Alumna Mildred Fish Harnack
Posted 10/19/2010
MADISON, Wis. –The UW–Madison Libraries and the University Archives present an exhibit on Mildred Fish Harnack (B.A. ’25, M.A. ’26), distinguished literary scholar and translator, who was an important figure in the resistance against the Nazi Party. The exhibit, which is open to the public on Memorial Library’s second floor, runs until December 1, 2010. Items in the exhibit include documents and photographs that chronicle Mildred Fish Harnack’s time as a student and instructor at UW–Madison. Additional materials are included to offer a snapshot of university life in the early 1920s. The exhibit is accompanied by a biographical brochure that synthesizes documents and photographs from the University Archives, the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, and previous university exhibits to provide a detailed history of this important UW–Madison alumna. The UW Digital Collections Center will launch a digitized exhibit later in the fall, viewable online at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.UWMadison.
The physical and digital exhibits and brochure complement the traveling exhibition by Franz Rudolf Knubel from the German Resistance Memorial Center. This moving exhibit chronicles her life and love of language in Nazi Germany up until the day of her execution—when she was still working on her translation of a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem. The exhibition is installed at UW–Madison’s Hillel Foundation and runs until December 3, 2010.
