Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians.
Reception 5:30 p.m.
Program 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special evening with magician Richard Hatch. He will share with us the story of the German Jewish amateur magician and magic historian Guenther Dammann and the 1933 book he wrote in Berlin about Jewish magicians. Hatch will intertwine magic that might have been performed by Dammann and these great Jewish magicians into his presentation on the fascinating although unfortunately tragic tale of Guenther Dammann.
Last year, the New York Times devoted 3 pages of their Arts & Leisure section to Hatch’s work translating this book by Guenther Dammann about the wonderful contributions of Jewish magicians to the art form.
Although Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, he finds it easier to break the laws of nature than to discover them. A childhood interest in magic became a lifelong obsession, and he has been a full-time professional “deceptionist” since 1983. Richard honed his craft entertaining guests as one of the house magicians at Houston’s Magic Island Nightclub before devoting himself exclusively to private and corporate work.
In 2010 he and his wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura Hatch, moved to his hometown of Logan, Utah where they opened the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music. Richard Hatch is now dedicating himself to preserving the history of this German Jewish author murdered in the Holocaust.
There are so many Holocaust stories…but this is one you will not want to miss.