Each year at Yom Hashoah (Days of Remembrance), the DHM/CET provides education and programs that remember victims of the Holocaust, their families and friends. Join us for these special events.
A nationally-recognized Holocaust educator will present a music lecture-recital from the Holocaust’s Jewish ghettos at the Dallas Holocaust Museum’s annual Yom Hashoah remembrance at Temple Shalom on April 19 at 6:30 p.m.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is a community partner for the Dallas premiere of Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man on Monday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Angelika Film Center-Mockingbird Station.
Hylton L. Jonas, a retired business executive from Dallas, is the new Chairman of the Board of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance (DHM/CET) for 2012 and 2013.
With the acquisition or donation of the following items, the DHM/CET can greatly enhance our mission and broaden our reach into the North Texas community.
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and the PJ Library of the Center for Jewish Education (CJE) will host a public Menorah Lighting with Chabad of Dallas on December 20
At this time of year, I find myself reflecting and giving thanks.
We are greatly saddened by the passing of Edith Molnar on Nov. 29, 2011.
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The last quarter of 2011 has been a busy time for the DHM/CET.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum considers its volunteers vital to the DHM/CET’s success and strives to create a community of UPSTANDERS dedicated to carrying out the Museum’s mission.
Brandon A. Ryan planned and constructed the Garden of Remembrance and Tolerance that was dedicated by the DHM/CET to victims of the Holocaust.
Marvin began volunteering with the DHM/CET in early September and quickly became a wonderful asset.
The DHM/CET has joined the Watch Tower Theater to provide script review and educational support in the form of post performance audience question and answer sessions following several performances of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Many thanks to HBO for sponsoring the Color of Memory: Art by Two Daughters of the Holocaust.
The DHM/CET board and staff extend special gratitude to all our supporters, sponsors and volunteers.
A new exhibition entitled “Every Child Has a Name” opened at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance on December 9.
Exhibit features Toys, Artwork, and Poetry of Some of the 1.5 million child victims of the Holocaust
The special exhibit The Color of Memory: Art by Two Daughters of the Holocaust, has been extended through November 27.
The public is invited to an exclusive free screening of the film “Primo” on November 16 at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance. The screening is sponsored by HBO.
Lecture by internationally-acclaimed author, original courtroom drawings of Eichmann to be featured at Temple Emanu-El event
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. Dinner Invitation
Exhibit features reproductions of more than 250 historic photos and documents on Hitler’s effort to eradicate homosexuality during the Third Reich
Following are frequently-asked-questions and responses about the exhibit and the brutal Nazi campaign against people who did not fit the Nazi vision of a “master Aryan race.”
“West End as a Classroom” will be back for a fourth year and begins this summer.
Military families with loved ones on active duty will be offered free admission to the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance again this summer.
Through reproductions of some 250 historical photographs and documents, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 examines the rationale, means and impact of the Nazi regime’s attempt to eradicate homosexuality that left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more.
The DHM/CET announces the opening of a new special exhibit gallery with a photographic exhibit, “In the Aftermath Auschwitz-Birkenau: From Hatred to Hope.” The exhibit features the work of two photographers whose images capture different aspects of Auschwitz-Birkenau, both literal and spiritual.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is the Charity of The Month in May for One Meaning Couture.
To accomplish our mission, the Museum relies on the help of generous donors who believe, as we do, that indifference and hatred can be overcome.
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Teachers, please make note of these Museum educational offerings.
It’s not too late to purchase tickets for the upcoming production of Cabaret, at a greatly discounted price! The DHM/CET, along with the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, was extended this special discount by the Dallas Theater Center for this production in the new Wyly Theatre.
Belinda M. Griffin, an experienced operations and human resources executive in the financial services field, is the new director of Finance and Administration for the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is a proud sponsor of the KERA Rewards Card program, supporting public media in North Texas.
Did you know that the DHM/CET has a Facebook page?
By Alice Murray
President and CEO
Local Holocaust Survivor Max Glauben shared his story of survival recently at East Central University Ada, Oklahoma, as well as with the Texas Tech School of Law in Lubbock, Texas, as reported by the Texas Tech Toreador.
Entitled “The Holocaust: Does it Defy Words,” the event is free and open to the public.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is co-sponsoring a special free screening of the new documentary Ingelore.
On April 6th and 7th, The Dallas Holocaust Museum will feature a presentation by Leila Levinson, author of Gated Grief: The Daughter of a GI Concentration Camp Liberator Discovers a Legacy of Trauma.
For his Eagle Scout project, 15-year-old Brandon Ryan is building a memorial to local Holocaust Survivors on a corner of the Museum’s parking lot on Houston Street in downtown Dallas—with the Museum’s approval.
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In observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Texas Coalition for Holocaust Education sponsors an annual statewide art, writing and video contest.
The Museum will be offering several Museum Visit Orientations and full-day Teacher Workshops between February and May.
The DHM/CET needs your help in remembering the children lost during the Holocaust.
The DHM/CET is proud to announce participation in the North American Reciprocal Museums program, which will give DHM/CET Museum members at the $108 level or higher benefits at other NARM museums in Texas.
Volunteering is a great way to contribute to the Museum in a direct and personal way.
The Museum welcomed Pam Barnes to the team in late 2010 as Development and Administrative Coordinator.
In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of Nov. 9 - 10, 1938, and the start of World War II, nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to safety in Great Britain. These children were saved by the Kindertransport rescue movement.
2010 was a remarkable year for the DHM/CET!
The Museum welcomed nine new first-term members of the Board of Directors for 2011.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is opening a new Special Exhibit Gallery on February 18.
To accomplish our mission, the Museum relies on the help of generous donors who believe, as we do, that indifference and hatred can be overcome.
It only takes an hour to experience one day during the Holocaust that will change your life.
Join the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance on January 27 from 6 to 7 p.m. as we bring light to the world in remembrance of a dark period of our past.
William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor and a frequent and popular speaker at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, has died. He was 91.
By Alice Murray
President/CEO
Memorials and Honoraria
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Museum Visit Orientations are for educators who are considering bringing their students to the museum and for those who have already scheduled a visit.
The Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Final Solution
Make your voice heard in the museum category of the WFAA-List, which rates the “best of” community venues and services in 124 categories based on the people’s choice.
Busy Schedule of Events Marks Museum’s Fall of 2010
By Maria MacMullin
Director of Development
Learning Torah from a Non-Jew: The Holocaust Museum Honors Roger Staubach
Register your vote for the Dallas Holocaust Museum in the WFAA A-List contest. Your votes determine the outcome. Voting ends Saturday, December 18th.
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.
Best-selling biographer Eric Metaxas will be the special guest speaker at a lecture event at the Dallas Holocaust Museum on October 11 that will explore the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young Lutheran theologian in Hitler’s Germany who stood up to the Third Reich and was executed for doing so.
The Museum’s 2009 Annual Report, Looking Forward, is now available online as a .pdf. For additional information on the annual report, call Development Director Maria MacMullin at 214-741-7500.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is proud to support the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s education initiative called SLANT 45.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is seeking to hire a Development Coordinator to assist the museum’s development and advance programs.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is giving away two tickets to the November 11, 2010, Hope for Humanity Dinner honoring Roger Staubach.
On Saturday, September 25, 2010, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance will participate in the sixth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian Magazine.
Max Glauben, a Survivor-Speaker for the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, will be the featured guest speaker following the September 23rd Dallas premiere of the internationally-acclaimed documentary on the Warsaw Ghetto, A Film Unfinished.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is co-sponsoring the Dallas premiere of the film Rafting to Bombay on September 12 at the Zale Auditorium of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Dallas.
On Wednesday, September 8, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is taking part in Get Up and Give! North Texas Giving Day.
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Holly Torres, an experienced operations manager in both the corporate and non-profit sectors, is the new Financial & Office Manager for the Museum.
David Taffet led a large contingent of counter demonstrators who stood in support of the Museum during the hate picket on July 9, 2010. The Museum is grateful to Taffet and all of the supporters from the Dallas Voice, Beth El B’nai and the Resource Center Dallas who continue to stand up against intolerance.
For anyone who’s braved a weekend of garage sales, it’s well known that they are hit or miss - usually less hit than miss. But one local Richardson woman came across a great find in an unlikely place. The daughter of a lifelong railroad technician, she spotted an old black railcar lantern, and she purchased it to show her father.
To help prepare educators to teach the Holocaust and its lessons, the Museum-as a certified provider of Continuing Professional Education by the Texas Education Agency-presents numerous workshops and orientations throughout the year.
To reserve your spot, contact Kathy Chapman at 214-741-7500 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Teacher Seminar with Ephraim Kaye from Yad Vashem set for Monday, August 9th
All gifts made to the Dallas Holocaust Museum between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on September 8th at donorbridgetx.org will be matched by a generous group of funders.
What UPSTANDERS Look Like on a Hot July Day
To accomplish our mission, the Museum relies on the help of generous donors who believe, as we do, that indifference and hatred can be overcome.
The Museum is getting rave reviews on one of Internet’s most popular travel websites, TripAdvisor.com The Museum is ranked the 4th most popular Dallas attraction among 104 listings.
Want to become a new member of the Museum? Renew your annual Membership? Gift the gift of a Membership? Make a donation? These options are now available on our website.
Roger Staubach, the football legend who has devoted much of his career and personal life to community service and organizations in support of children and youth, will be the recipient of the 2010 Hope for Humanity Award from the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is pleased to present a full day seminar with Ephraim Kaye, Director of the International Seminars for Educators at The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel.
“West End as a Classroom” will be back for a third year this Fall by popular demand.
Military families with loved ones on active duty are offered free admission to the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance this summer.
Recent news from the DHM/CET.
A junior high class in Prosper, Texas, north of Dallas, decided that victims of the Rwandan genocide needed a memorial.
Butterflies have long been associated with the Holocaust as a symbol of hope for the future, so they were the perfect theme for a children’s craft activity hosted by the Museum at the annual CityArts Festival May 9th and 10th at Dallas’ Fair Park.
Plans for a new Holocaust Museum for Dallas was the subject of a student project in the architectural school of Texas A&M University (TAMU), which culminated in a juried review of the students’ designs on May 3.
“The great use of life,” wrote the philosopher William James, “is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
