BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Holocaust Museum Houston - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hmh.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Holocaust Museum Houston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240405T150126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T141947Z UID:10000908-1714674600-1714681800@hmh.org SUMMARY:Zikaron BaSalon DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR IN PERSON\n \n RSVP FOR VIRTUAL\n \n \n \n \n \n Zikaron BaSalon\, “Remembering in the Living Room” in Hebrew\, is an initiative which started in 2011 with the goal to commemorate the Holocaust and its victims on a more personal and individualistic level. Focusing much more on survivors sharing their unique experiences and promoting conversation between survivors and those listening\, Zikaron BaSalon distinguishes itself from other Holocaust Education initiatives by focusing entirely on the human impact that can only be shared in a smaller\, well-connected setting\, with Holocaust survivors and their descendants. \nJoin Holocaust Museum Houston’s Zikaron BaSalon conversation\, as a small panel of survivors and descendants discuss their experiences\, and the importance of preserving the memory of the Holocaust L’dor v’dor (From Generation to Generation). This event will be happening alongside the citywide Zikaron BaSalon presented by the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston on Monday\, May 6. URL:https://hmh.org/event/zikaron-basalon-3/ LOCATION:Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-Zikaron-Basalon.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240505T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240505T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240215T162034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T162041Z UID:10000898-1714910400-1714928400@hmh.org SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah/Walter Kase Free Admission Day DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n \n \n \n \n Museum admission fees will be waived on Sunday\, May 5\, 2024 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase\, z”l and Yom HaShoah. \nWhen Germany invaded Poland in September 1939\, it soon became clear that Walter’s family’s lives would never be the same again. At the end of 1940\, Walter\, his parents and his sister\, Rysia\, were herded into a Jewish ghetto. One day in 1941\, the ghetto residents were told to gather in the city square. There\, in front of her family\, Rysia was lined up with other young children and shot to death. Twelve-year-old Walter was sent with his father to the labor camp of Pionki\, later to Auschwitz and Sosnowiec\, and finally to Mauthausen and two of its sub-camps. \nWalter and his father were liberated by the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army on May 5\, 1945. Taken to a hospital to recuperate\, Walter regained his strength\, but his father succumbed a month later. Walter made his way back to Poland\, where he was reunited with his mother. In 1947\, Walter came to the United States\, settling in Kansas City\, Missouri. There\, he finished his schooling\, started a career in sales and was drafted and served proudly during the Korean War. Walter was able to bring his mother to the United States\, where she settled in Washington\, DC. \nWalter moved to Houston\, where he established a successful import business. He was active in Jewish causes\, sitting on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust Museum Houston. The Anti-Defamation League established a Teachers’ Award in Walter’s name\, and he was the first recipient of the St. Augustine Award from St. Thomas University in recognition of his life-changing impact on others. URL:https://hmh.org/event/yom-hashoah-walter-kase-free-admission-day/ LOCATION:Holocaust Museum Houston ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-Kase.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240505T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240505T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240122T170028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T203119Z UID:10000887-1714921200-1714926600@hmh.org SUMMARY:Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance DESCRIPTION:Please join us in observance of Yom HaShoah\, a day of remembrance for the 6\,000\,000 Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this annual commemoration\, we will mourn the loss of all who perished\, honor those who survived and come together as a community to remember and reflect. \nCoordinated by the Yom HaShoah Steering Committee and Holocaust Museum Houston \nFunding for this service is generously provided by:The Morgan Family Endowment Fund\, the Morgan Family Center and the Morgan Family Foundation \nTo live stream this event please visit:https://www.bethyeshurun.org/ URL:https://hmh.org/event/citywide-yom-hashoah-observance-2/ LOCATION:Congregation Beth Yeshurun – 4525 Beechnut St.\, Houston\, TX 77096 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/HMH-02958-Yom-HaShoah-2024-1014x676-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240509T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240509T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240402T152629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T152636Z UID:10000907-1715279400-1715286600@hmh.org SUMMARY:Shang-Chai DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n \n \n \n \n Join us as Israeli journalist Dvir Bar-Gal shares his decades of research into the story of the Shanghai Ghetto\, and how it served not only as a refuge for European Jews\, but also became an important center for Jewish culture and history in an uncertain time. \nIn 1930’s Nazi Germany\, Jews and other communities targeted by the Reich found themselves desperate to find refuge in foreign lands. Due to antisemitism and strict immigration laws at that time\, many Jews were trapped and unable to escape to safety. One of the few\, and one of the most unknown places in which Jews were able to find shelter\, was the Chinese Port City of Shanghai.  URL:https://hmh.org/event/shang-chai/ LOCATION:Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-Shang-Chai.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240215T161303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T161312Z UID:10000897-1715767200-1715792400@hmh.org SUMMARY:Stefi Altman Free Admission Day DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n \n \n \n \n Museum admission will be waived on Wednesday\, May 15\, 2024 in honor of Holocaust survivor Stefi Altman\, z”l. \nStefi Altman was just 13 years old when Germany overran Poland in September 1939. Soon after\, Stefi’s two older brothers were arrested and sent to a labor camp\, and Nazi soldiers brutuall beat her fater and drove the family from their house. They fled to Stefi’s grandfather’s farm\, taking shelter in the barn. \nThe family remained together until 1940\, when Stefi was sent to the labor camp of Jastkov. Later she was sent to Treblinka and Majdanek. Next\, she was sent to the camp of Dorohucza. Although Dorohucza had neither gas chambers nor crematoria of the other camps\, death always hovered nearby. Like Stefi\, many of the inmates were only half alive by the time they got there. At the end of 1943\, Stefi discovered that her sister\, Kayla\, had also been sent to Dorohucza. But relief soon turned to horror when Kayla was brutally murdered. \nStefi managed\, against all odds\, to escape Dorohucza. For the remainder of the war\, she hid in a coffin-like space underneath a barn that belonged to a sympathetic Polish farmer. After she was liberated by the Soviets\, she learned that her entire family had been murdered. \nStefi Altman\, z”l\, passed away in December 2017. URL:https://hmh.org/event/stefi-altman-free-admission-day/ LOCATION:Holocaust Museum Houston ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-Stefi.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240522T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240522T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240221T173010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T173017Z UID:10000900-1716402600-1716408000@hmh.org SUMMARY:Warren Fellowship Public Lecture | Antisemitism Here and Now – Mark Weitzman DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n \n \n \n \n Mark Weitzman is Chief Operating Officer for the World Jewish Restitution Organization where he plays a leading role in organization’s advocacy and negotiations efforts to recover Jewish properties in Europe in pursuit of a measure of justice for Holocaust survivors\, their families\, and Jewish communities. \nPreviously he was Director of Government Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center and is also Chief Representative of the Center to the United Nations in New York. He is a member of the official US delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority(IHRA) where he chaired the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial and is currently chairing the Working Group on Holocaust Museums and Memorials.  URL:https://hmh.org/event/warren-fellowship-public-lecture-antisemitism-here-and-now-mark-weitzman/ LOCATION:Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-Mark-Weitzman.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240529T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T185221 CREATED:20240325T192830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T190220Z UID:10000906-1717007400-1717014600@hmh.org SUMMARY:The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n \n \n \n \n Join the Museum for a free lecture and book signing from Tim Madigan\, author of The Burning: Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. \nOn the night of May 31 through June 1\, 1921\, following an alleged assault on a white woman\, a mob of hundreds of white supremacists descended upon the Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma. Known at that time as Black Wall Street\, Greenwood was one of the most prosperous African American neighborhoods in the nation. By the end of the race riot\, hundreds of buildings had been laid to waste\, over 10\,000 Greenwood residents were left homeless\, and up to 300 people had been murdered. Following the massacre\, the Greenwood district remained a shadow of itself\, and reports of the attack were largely unheard of for nearly a century.  \nAuthor Tim Madigan’s work gives an in -depth and haunting look into the events of that fateful day. Shedding light not only on the barbarism of the perpetrators in Tulsa\, but also exposing America’s long history of countless race massacres that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth\, and first half of the twentieth\, centuries in the United States.   URL:https://hmh.org/event/the-burning-the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921/ LOCATION:Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hmh.org/wp-content/uploads/WEB-The-Burning.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR