A bus full of history will roll onto The University of Findlay campus Friday, May 18. Sponsored by UF’s department of history, law and political science, the BUS-eum 2 will carry the exhibit VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internment, 1941-48. The community is welcome to tour the exhibit, which will be parked from 1 to 4 p.m. in the parking lot beside 112 Howard St., Findlay.

Operated by the TRACES Center for History and Culture, a Midwest/World War II history museum in Saint Paul, Minn., BUS-eum 2 is touring eight eastern Midwest states in partnership with regional state historical societies, state librarians/library associations and humanities councils.

The BUS-eum 2 exhibit tells the stories of 15,000 German-American civilians imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II, not one of whom had legal representation, was charged with or tried for or convicted of a war-related crime. While those interned included Nazi sympathizers, there were also anti-Nazis, socialists, Jewish refugees and kidnapped Latin-American Germans among them. The Midwest was the site for 18 of the U.S. government’s 60 camps and centers.

The first BUS-eum, which contained the exhibit Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany, visited 405 communities in six Upper Midwest states; 37,500 people viewed that exhibit.

For more information, please contact Mark Polelle, Ph.D., associate professor and director of history, political science and law and the liberal arts.