Adrian Diversity Event Fund

08/21/2026

One important role that the Diversity Event Fund plays in our community to support other organizations with their events that might not be able to afford some of the items we are fortunate to have donated to us.

We are fortunate to have the following items that can be checked out and borrowed to other groups that share our values of hate free and inclusive events that celebrate our communities rich culture and heritage.

Availability is subject to mutual schedules and events that meet high standards of diversity and acceptance and and expectation of hate-free standards.

Reach out to us to learn more.

08/21/2026

Happy to partner Lenawee Pride.

We are honored to announce Adrian Diversity Event Fund as an ✨official✨ Sponsor of Lenawee Pride 2026 🙌 Look for their booth on Saturday 9/26/26 from 3-8pm🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ THANK YOU!

The ADEF is an LGBTQIA+ owned organization that does incredible work right here in our community. They have been wonderful supports to our organization and we are grateful to call them our friends. Please join us in showing them some love ya'll! 👀🙏

"If there’s something happening in Lenawee County that brings people together, celebrates somebody’s story, teaches a little history, challenges a little hate, or makes our community just a bit more colorful, there’s a pretty good chance the Adrian Diversity Event Fund is somewhere nearby. 💜

From supporting Lenawee Pride and LGBTQ+ visibility 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ to bringing incredible cultural and educational experiences to our community, ADEF believes diversity isn’t something we simply talk about — we show up for it."

Thanks again, Friends! 🙏

08/20/2026

We hope you can join us and share your story! Register here: https://www.adriandiversityeventfund.org/NationalComingOutDay

08/19/2026

Join us for National Coming Out Day and share your story. We will be doing a book study using the book "I Have Something to Tell You" on October 6th from 6-8pm at the Adrian District Library. We will then be sharing our stories with our friends, family, and community at Farvers in Downtown Adrian on October 10th from 4-6:30pm.

Register online at: https://forms.gle/aC1kBeKyHG83BWtN8

Free copies of the book will be distributed first come first serve at the Adrian Diversity Event Fund Booth during Lenawee Pride on September 26th. (or by other arrangement)

Thanks to our partners Lenawee Pride Holiday with Heart Charity Gayla and The Croswell Opera House to help make this event possible.

08/13/2026

Some of our extra books from the pop-up are for sale at the Adrian District Library

If the recent pop-up Holocaust Museum in Adrian inspired you to learn more, we have a small collection of books about the Holocaust in our featured sale this month. Hardcovers are only $2, and these donations are in excellent condition. Our ongoing sale, across from the circulation desk at the Adrian District Library downtown, runs whenever the Library is open.

08/12/2026

We donated a book on Anne Frank to the Adrian District Library today. Check it out. It’s a great new book.

07/20/2026

It was such an honor to be part of this project and donation to the Auschwitz Museum. Three letters that were part of a collection in Adrian were delivered to the Head Archivist Wojciech Płosa. He later taught a course on archival techniques and the collection. They have only about 8,000 letter in their collection and none of these three individuals had letters on file. So great addition to growing their archives and helping to expand their knowledge of Polish Political Prisoners in Auschwitz. Thank you Michael for your donation.

07/15/2026

Over 82 years ago political prisoner Józef Ryszka wrote a letter to his wife from Block 19 at Auschwitz I. Today this letter was return to Auschwitz and donated to the museum archives.

07/08/2026

On June 20, 1943, Hannah Goslar and Irene Butter were among more than 5,000 Jewish people arrested during a massive N**i roundup in Amsterdam. Early that Sunday morning, German and Dutch authorities sealed off parts of the city, including the Rivierenbuurt, the neighborhood where both girls lived. Anne Frank had gone into hading the previous July.

Police went from house to house, ordering Jewish families to pack their belongings and leave their homes. The arrested families were taken to assembly points before being transported to by truck to Muiderpoort Station.

Hannah, Irene, and thousands of others were then forced aboard trains bound for the Westerbork transit camp.

Today, there are two memorial plaques at Muiderpoort Station.

General plaque states: “From this station, between October 3, 1942, and May 26, 1944, more than eleven thousand Jews were transported to the Westerbork transit camp. Most of them were murdered in the extermination camps in Central and Eastern Europe.”

The Poem on the park bench reads: “Yet through their shame
a stream of long,
long-forgotten names flows.
Long-forgotten eyes?

Shall we still know
that we have forgotten them?
Have they been forgotten?”

07/07/2026

“Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

Willem Arondéus was a Dutch artist and resistance fighter during World War II. After N**i Germany occupied the Netherlands, he helped create false identity papers to protect Jewish people and others from arrest.

In 1943, Arondéus and other resistance members attacked Amsterdam’s population records office to destroy documents the N**is used to identify people.

He was arrested and executed on July 1, 1943. Arondéus was openly gay. Before his ex*****on, his reported final message was, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”