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Hope for Humanity Dinner, honoring Frank Risch
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Dallas Fairmont Hotel
Dinner 7 p.m., VIP Reception 6 p.m.
Sponsorships now available: 214-741-7500
Sponsors as of October 18, 2011
UPSTANDER $25,000
Anonymous
Pioneer Natural Resources/Vinson & Elkins/Fran and Mark Berg
Dee and Charles* Wyly
CHAI $18,000
Alon USA
Barbara and Stan Rabin
Edward W. Rose III Family Fund of the Dallas Foundation
AMBASSADOR OF HOPE $10,000
Aaron Family Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Communty Foundation
Altman Family Foundation
Janet and Jeffrey Beck
ExxonMobil
Funk Family
Gardere Wynne Sewell
Glazer’s
Carol and Don Glendenning/Locke Lord
Liz and Tom Halsey
Ynette and Jim Hogue
Hunt Consolidated
The Nate and Ann Levine Family Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Neiman Marcus Group
Helen and Frank Risch
The J. Stephen and Susan G. Simon Family Charitable Fund
Waldman Bros.
BUTTERFLY OF FREEDOM ($5,000)
Anonymous
Drs. Michelle and Benjamin Bassichis
Kay and Elliot Cattarulla
Jeanne and Sanford Fagadau/Rita Sue and Alan Gold
The Fairmont Dallas
Feldman Family Foundation
Rena and Ken Glaser
Joyce and Stephen Goldmann
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Jan and Fred Hegi
Jackson Walker, LLP
Veronique and Hylton Jonas
Ann Levy
Mankoff Family Foundation
Bobbi and Richard Massman
Jolene Risch-Minsky and Jayson Minsky/Alisha and Jonathan Risch
Marie and Dick Nowak
Park Place Dealerships
Elaine and Trevor Pearlman
Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation
Robbie and John Raphael
The Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt and Randall Lee Rosenblatt Family Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Lisa and Jim Rosenthal
Schoenbrun Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
The Leslie and Howard Schultz Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Alice and Jim Skinner
Sloan Wealth Management/Laura and Rick Lear
Strasburger & Price, LLP/Jacqueline and Jules Brenner
Joanne and Charles Teichman/Ylang 23
Maddy and Mark Unterberg/Gayle Johansen and Lester Baum
Elaine and Irving Wolbrom
William Zisson
TABLE HOSTS $3,000
Penny and Tony Atkiss
The Beck Group
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Berman
Rebecca and Ken Bruder
Board of Directors of Dallas CASA
Catholic Diocese of Dallas
Sheila and Jeffrey Chapman
Comerica Bank
Communities Foundation of Texas
Corgan
Dallas Theater Center
Ernst & Young, LLP
Rebecca and Barron Fletcher/Bess and Ted Enloe
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Marsha and Ron Gaswirth
Sherry and Kenny Goldberg/Laura and Tom Leppert
Honorable and Mrs. Randall Isenberg/Karla and Lawrence Steinberg
Lane Gorman Trubitt, PLLC
Levine Academy
Margie and David Levy/ExxonMobil
Bobby B. Lyle and Judy Gibbs
National Freight/Ike Brown
Northern Trust/David, Goodman, & Madole
Plains Capital Bank
Prescott Pailet Benefits Charitable Fund
Karen Cortell Reisman and James Reisman
Ruth Robinson Family
Ruthy and Steven Rosenberg
Gail and Richard Sachson/Barbara and Stan Levenson
Senator Florence Shapiro
Leadership of Temple Emanu-El
Tracy Locke
Sandra and David Veeder/Kerri and Rick Lacher
Wingate Partners
*may his memory be a blessing
For the past 20 years that Frank Risch has called Dallas home, he’s given it his heart. Since moving to Dallas, Frank and his wife, Helen, have helped make many new and exciting changes possible in the Dallas area through their community involvement, philanthropy, and volunteer service. For nearly the entire time Frank has lived in Dallas, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance (DHM/CET), where he has been instrumental in transforming the organization from a memorial and resource center located in the lower level of the Jewish Community Center to a creative Museum established in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas. Currently serving on the DHM/CET’s Executive Committee, Frank remains a tireless advocate in advancing the Museum’s mission of preserving the memory of the Holocaust and teaching the moral and ethical response to hatred, prejudice and indifference, for the benefit of all humanity.
The son of Herbert and Irma Risch, who fled Nazi Germany in 1937, to escape the Holocaust, Frank was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree from Penn State University in 1964, and his master’s degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1966. That year, Frank went to work for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey - now ExxonMobil Corporation - as a Financial Analyst, beginning a career that spanned 38 years. During this period, Frank held positions of increasing responsibility in the functional areas of finance, planning, operations and general management with Exxon and its operating affiliates in New York, London, Athens, and Seattle before settling in Dallas when the company’s headquarters moved from New York in 1990. As the Treasurer of Exxon Corporation, Frank played an important role in facilitating the merger of Exxon and Mobil Corporation in 1999. Frank retired in 2004 as Vice President, Treasurer, and Principal Financial Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation.
During his career and now in retirement, Frank has actively served the Dallas community through his dedicated volunteer service and philanthropy. Involved in the development and growth of Dallas’s performing arts center into what is now the landmark AT&T Performing Arts Center, Frank serves on its board of directors and executive committee. Instrumental in the transformation of the Dallas Theater Center as it has moved to the Wyly Theatre, Frank now serves the organization as Chairman of Board. As a long-standing board member of Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), which supports the needs of abused and neglected children in Dallas County, Frank is currently involved in the organization’s strategic planning efforts to enhance its growth and capabilities.. Frank is Vice Chair of the Board of Communities Foundation of Texas, Chair of its Philanthropy Committee, and member of its Investment Committee. He is also a former Vice Chair and member of the Dallas Zoological Society board.
In addition to these responsibilities, Frank is a member of the Business Board of Advisors of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where he and Helen have endowed a Faculty Development Professorship in Business. He also serves on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, where he was President from 2005-2007. In the corporate world, Frank is a member of the Board of Directors of Pioneer Natural Resources Company.
In 2003, Frank received the Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League. In 2007, in honor of his parents, Frank and Helen established the Herbert H. and Irma B. Risch Memorial Program at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, which is dedicated to the mission of understanding the immigrant experience in America. Frank and Helen also established the Helen Risch Preschool Scholarship Endowment Fund at the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation to provide financial assistance to enable small children to attend Jewish preschools in the Dallas area. Frank and Helen enjoy the theater, cycling, skiing, and kayaking. Their children, Jonathan and Alisha Risch of Houston, Texas, and Jolene Risch-Minsky and Jayson Minsky of Dallas, have blessed them with six wonderful grandchildren, ages 5 to nearly 13.
Hope for Humanity 2011 Dinner sponsorships are available by contacting Development Director Maria MacMullin at 214-741-7500.
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Other event sponsorship opportunities are available throughout the year. These opportunities include:
To learn more about these sponsorship opportunities, please call Maria MacMullin, Director of Development, at 214-741-7500, ext. 103 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Hope for Humanity Dinner, a highly anticipated annual charity event, benefits the educational programs of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance. A member of our community is honored each year with the Hope for Humanity Award, given to those who are a testament to the Museum’s mission of tolerance. Click here for information on 2010 sponsorship opportunities.
Focused on bringing the legacy of the Holocaust to the next generation, the 2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner on November 11 at the Dallas Fairmont Hotel will offer a program that honors the memory of those whose lives ended during the Holocaust, but whose memory endures through their artistic creations. Further, a special presentation honoring our Holocaust Survivors will be a focal point of the evening. Our featured entertainment includes performances by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in both a poetry reading of Pavel Friedmann’s The Butterfly and a performance of select scenes from Hans Krása’s opera Brundibár, presented in conjunction with the University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theater. Here’s an overview of the evening’s events:
2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner
L’dor V’dor (from Generation to Generation)
For inspiring background and important information about our entertainment program please watch the CBS 60 Minutes video of child survivors of Terezin: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
Evening Program: Overview
Focused on bringing the legacy of the Holocaust to the next generation, the 2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner will offer a program that honors the memory of those whose lives ended during the Holocaust, but whose memory endures through their artistic creations. Further, a special presentation honoring our Holocaust Survivors will be a focal point of the evening. Our featured entertainment includes performances by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in both a poetry reading of Pavel Friedmann’s The Butterfly and a performance of select scenes from Hans Krása’s opera Brundibár, presented in conjunction with the University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theater. Our closing act will include musician and SMU Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, José Bowen, Ph.D., performing an inspired, modern variation of the Hebrew classic L’dor V’dor. Two brief video presentations will also be shown: an informational video about the Museum and an inspiring tribute to this year’s honoree, Roger Staubach.
The evening’s entertainment spotlights the amazing talent of the artists and intellectuals of the Terezin Ghetto who, being aware that fate was likely to bring them to the gas chambers, and while suffering the ghastly conditions of the Terezin Ghetto and grisly treatment by the Nazis, rose above this cruel reality to create a repertoire of artistic achievement still performed, published and celebrated today. These exceptional minds deserve to be remembered; for through their suffering remains a legacy of brilliance and a testament to the human condition.
*Read journal entries of Terezin prisoners. Be sure to read Part 2 for demonstration of how music and art fed the soul of the victims:
http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/place/words.html
The Terezin Concentration Camp (also known as Theresienstadt) of the Czech Rebulic existed as a contrast of public display and private reality. Publically, Terezin was presented as a “model camp” or a “resort” and deemed “Hilter’s gift to the Jews.” Privately however, victims of Terezin toiled in the most deplorable conditions of filth and disease where extermination was not merely a threat but a certainty.
While exact numbers vary, approximately 150,000 Jews entered through the gates of Terezin. Only about ten percent survived. Those who did not die of illness or starvation were transported to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. The fate of children at Terezin was even more gruesome: less than 100 of the 15,000 children imprisoned at Terezin lived to tell their story. None of the survivors were under the age of 15.
Recommended Reading:
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Poetry and art by the children
imprisoned in Terezin
$20
The DHM/CET offers I Never Saw Another Butterfly and a variety of other books about the Holocaust, many not available online or in bookstores. Please see our list of current titles and how-to-order information.
Further Reading:
(*The DHM/CET offers links to websites with information for further reading about subject matter related to the entertainment program described herein. The content on the web pages was not prepared by the DHM/CET. The DHM/CET is not responsible for errors and/or conflicting information on the web pages.)
*Read the history of the Terezin Concentration Camp and get statistical information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp
*Read journal entries of Terezin prisoners. Be sure to read Part 2 for demonstration of how music and art fed the soul of the victims:
http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/place/words.html
*Learn more about Terezin, including art and music information:
http://www.shoaheducation.com/terezin.html
*View a list of musical artists and their accomplishments:
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/theresienstadt/
*A “must read”: the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, victim of Terezin who nurtured the children of Terezin through art and poetic expression:
http://art-education.concordia.ca/facultystaff/pdfs/A%20Woman%20of%20Valor,%20David%20Pariser.pdf
*Learn the inspiring true story of Ilse Weber, poet and nurse-mother to the children of Terezin who cared for them in life and volunteered to die with them in the gas chambers of Auschwitz so that they would not die alone and afraid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Weber
*Watch a performance of Ilse Weber’s “Wiegala” lullaby reportedly sung by Weber to the children of Terezin as Weber and the children, including her own son, awaited their deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz:
Listen to a performance of Ilse Weber’s “Ich wander durch Theresienstadt” (I wander through Theresienstadt), music featured in the DHM/CET video presentation:
http://www.boosey.com/cr/sample_detail/Weber-Ich-wandre-durch-Theresienstadt/12550
*Weblinks to a variety of artwork from Terezin:
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/arts/ARTVICTI.HTM
http://holocaust-education.net/explore.asp?langid=1&submenu=205&searchtype=simple&searchtopic=5&id=7
Evening Program: Entertainment in detail
Act I: Honor and Remembrance
“The Butterfly”
http://www.shoaheducation.com/butterfly.html
A poem by Pavel Friedmann,
Poet and Prisoner of Terezin who perished at Auschwitz
About the poetry and the poet
The struggles of the internal versus the external are revealed through the creativity and imaginations of the children who perished during the Holocaust. Through their art, music and poetry, these children shared with us not only their experiences but also the beauty of their souls. In doing so, they have left to us a most precious gift: the miracle of how children can change the world.
Through his poem, The Butterfly, Pavel Friedmann gave us an inside glimpse of the world where he lived, how that world affected him and his thoughts about his own future. He recalls beauty that he is no longer able to see; he believes that the butterfly left Terezin, left the world, taking its beauty with it, kissing the world good-bye as if it no longer could bear what life had become. He understands the gravity of his situation and perhaps wishes for it to be over. Pavel Friedmann composed this poem just seven weeks into his 29-month imprisonment at Terezin. He was a victim of Auschwitz on September 29, 1944.
If Pavel Friedmann had survived what would his life be now? Would he have located relatives, rebuilt his life, and evolved into the full promise of his talents and abilities? We will never know for sure those answers, but we can be certain that his legacy—and the legacy of all victims and survivors—will be preserved and handed down to the next generation.
Read the poem, “The Butterfly”, by Pavel Friedman:
http://www.shoaheducation.com/butterfly.html
Pavel Friedmann was born in Prague on January 7, 1921. He was deported to Terezin on April 26, 1942 and later to Auschwitz, where he died on September 29, 1944.
Recommended Reading:
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Poetry and art by the children
imprisoned in Terezin
$20
The DHM/CET offers I Never Saw Another Butterfly and a variety of other books about the Holocaust, many not available online or in bookstores. Please see our list of current titles and how-to-order information.
Act II: Upstanders
Select scenes from
Brundibár, an Opera for Children
By Hans Krása
A performance by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in conjunction with the Lyric Theater of the University of Texas at San Antonio
“Music meant such a lot for us because we felt like human beings again. We didn’t feel like animals. You could cry, you could open your heart…. For moments to forget, for half an hour to forget. We could cry there, we could be happy there. We could remember and we could hope——And all of us tried to take part. It was not so easy.”—Zuzana Podmelova, Terezin prisoner
Several of the original cast survived Terezin.
Their story can be found at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
About the Brundibar Opera
The opera Brundibár was written by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása in 1938. In 1942, he was deported to Terezín (or Theresienstadt), a ghetto created by the Nazis to amass European Jews in one location prior to transportation to the East for the “final solution.” In Terezín, Krása’s opera, Brundibár, was performed more than 50 times by children and musicians from the ghetto, including performances for Hilter. During the rehearsals and performances, as the transports to the East were in progress, there was a constant stream of new performers, replacing the previous performers who were being shipped to Auschwitz for extermination.
The opera itself is a story about friendship, good winning over evil and standing up to bullies. The final chorus says it best: “Victory spectacular, Goodbye to Brundibár, Never afraid of him, battle won, war is done, now we are number one. Our song is strong and clear, our voices without fear, what a phenomenon. Whoever loves justice and will defend it and is not afraid is our friend and may play with us”.
What is particularly significant and moving is the historical context in which it was originally performed—in a concentration camp, under the noses of the Nazis, who either were not listening or did not see the significance of the opera’s lyrics. The opera speaks to today’s children as well. It shows that if we pull together, we can overcome even the meanest bully.
Of course we children recognized the absurdity of this spectacle…but we also loved performing Brundibár. When you are making music, you are no longer a prisoner. You are free for a time.”—Paul Aron Sandfort (born Paul Rabinowitsch): Survivor of the Terezín ghetto, performed Brundibár in Terezin.
The opera exemplifies the mission of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance and demonstrates the need—then and now—for UPSTANDERS. Learn more about becoming an UPSTANDER at:
(Summary content provided in part by http://www.brundibar.ca/info.html)
Watch the CBS 60 Minutes video of child survivors of Terezin: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
*Review a study guide to Brundibar:
Act III: Legacy
Performance of
“L’dor V’dor”
A performance by José Bowen, Ph.D., Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU
accompanied by Keris Patterson and Seth Ordiway of SMU
Arrangement for piano provided by The Josh Nelson Project
*Read more about José Bowen, Ph.D.:
*Read more about The Josh Nelson Project:
http://joshnelsonproject.com/music/
About L’dor V’dor
Storytelling is one of humanity’s most cherished methods of teaching. Parents, children, grandparents, nurses, doctors, rabbis, priests and the like revel in relaying a story to those we nurture, to those we guide, to those we hold most dear. We are inspired by stories throughout life—cradle-to-grave sharing and receiving what has gone before us in order to be closer to our ancestors, to make wiser choices in the future, to leave the world a little better than we found it. The theme of our evening, L’dor V’dor, translates to “from generation to generation.” For our purposes, it means we are offering a legacy of learning about the Holocaust through the art, music and stories of those who endured it. By giving this “gift” to each subsequent generation, we are not only educating the world but also improving it. The music of L’dor V’dor has survived many generations, and on November 11th it shall survive one more.
L’dor V’dor
We are gifts and we are blessings, we are history in song
We are hope and we are healing, we are learning to be strong
We are words and we are stories, we are pictures of the past
We are carriers of wisdom, not the first and not the last
L’dor vador nagid godlecha
(From generation to generation, we will tell of Your greatness)
L’dor vador… we protect this chain
From generation to generation
L’dor vador, these lips will praise Your name
Looking back on the journey that we carry in our heart
From the shadow of the mountain to the waters that would part
We are blessed and we are holy, we are children of Your way
And the words that bring us meaning, we will have the strength to say
L’dor vador…
