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NEW MUSEUM OPENING SPRING 2019

Holocaust Museum Houston Announces $49.4 Million Capital Campaign

Expansion Plans to Double Size of Facility

—Lester and Sue Smith Name Museum Campus with $15 Million Grant,

Largest Donation in the History of the Museum

		SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 THROUGH OCTOBER 28, 2018 THE TEXAS LIBERATOR: WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST LOCATION: MINCBERG GALLERY "The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust" tells the story of 24 U.S. soldiers who liberated the concentration camps in Europe at the end of World War II. Upon entering the camps, the soldiers were not prepared for the terror, torture and depravity they discovered. Although they were hailed as liberators by the prisoners, what the soldiers found haunted many of them for the rest of their lives.

	BEARING WITNESS: A COMMUNITY REMEMBERS LOCATION: PERMANENT EXHIBITION This Permanent Exhibition is personalized with the testimony of Houston-area survivors who lived through a genocidal war that inflicted mass death on unprecedented numbers of innocent civilians. The exhibit begins by carrying visitors back to pre-war Europe and revealing the flourishing Jewish life and culture there.

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

This is Buchenwald: America's Encounter with the Holocaust, 1945-1995

September 20, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
9220 Kirby, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77054

The testimony of American military personnel has been a key source for our understanding of the experience of the last phase of Nazi genocide in Europe. This lecture examines the liberation of the massive camp complex at Buchenwald in April 1945.

Adam R. Seipp is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where his teaching and research focus on modern German history, the Holocaust and transatlantic relations.

Hours and Admission

Museum Hours:

Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Museum Admission:

$12 for adults
$8 for active-duty military and AARP members
Free for children, students and college-level students with valid ID
Free admission on Sundays

Address and Directions

Holocaust Museum Houston
Morgan Family Center
9220 Kirby Drive, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77054
Phone: 713-942-8000