Upcoming Events
April 8-June 30, 2013: Monument of Good Deeds Special Exhibit: Through photographs, paintings and illustrations taken, painted and drawn by young people during the Holocaust, this unforgettable exhibit reminds us all not only of what is lost to us but why we must never forget "good deeds" and celebrate their occurrence as an act of both memory and testimony.
June 12-15; June 21 & 22: The Timekeepers, a play by Dan Clancy, directed by Dallas' Joe Watts, in the DHM/CET Theater; Saturdays at 8 p.m.; weekday performances at 7:30 p.m. Admission, $20: June 12 is "pay what you can" night; content not suitable for young children.
July 1- Aug. 25: Rita Blitt Art Exhibit, Reaching Out from Within: Stories of perseverance through art, Museum theater. International, award winning painter/sculptor/filmmaker, Rita Blitt has been creating art all of her life. Thirteen of her colorful and dramatic pieces of sculpture and paintings will be on display.
June 6th, 2:00 p.m.: Dr. Geoffrey Megargee
Dr. Geoffrey Megargee, Senior Applied Research Scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will present his groundbreaking findings on a 13-year research project, resulting in the publication of the Museum’s seven-volume Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (first two now available); SMU’s Dallas Hall-McCord Auditorium. Free admission, but please RSVP at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
July 11th, 6:30 p.m.: Special speaker Munir Captain, Museum theater
Brothers Omar and Munir Captain are new residents of North Texas. From 2003 to 2009 both served as translators for U.S. forces in their native Iraq. The brothers bring interesting perspectives on the importance of the regime change, the nature of the long insurgency, the character of the American soldiers, the prospects for Iraq going forward and their own assimilation into American life.
