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SUMMARY:Renia’s Diary
DESCRIPTION:Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s younger sister Elizabeth Bellak who survived the Holocaust and has preserved Renia’s legacy of beauty and love. \nThis program is available in person (included in Museum general admission) and virtually. \n			\n				REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT
URL:https://hmh.org/event/renias-diary/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
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SUMMARY:Dr. Peter Hotez on Vaccine Tikkun: Global Vaccines and Vaccinations - the Science & the Antiscience
DESCRIPTION:This free public program is available to experience in-person at Holocaust Museum Houston and online via Zoom. All times are listed in Central Time. \nDr. Peter Hotez is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. He is perhaps most well-known for keeping Houston and the nation up to date on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine. Dr. Hotez will tell a personal story of his decades countering antivaccine activism\, which now includes attacks from extremist groups\, many with antisemitism and antisemitic leanings at their core.  He will explain his work in the greater context of the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam first taught to him by his cousin and Holocaust survivor\, Rabbi Phil Lazowski.  \nDr. Hotez will also discuss the 21st Century successes in global vaccines and vaccinations\, together with his work to develop new vaccines for poverty-related neglected diseases\, as well as a new COVID-19 vaccines for global health.  These include Corbevax administered to more than 80 million people in India\, and Indovac\, the first Halal vaccine for Indonesia and Muslim-majority nations.  \nBio: Peter J. Hotez\, M.D.\, Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.  He is also University Professor at Baylor University\, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy\,  Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University\, Faculty Fellow with the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies at Texas A&M University\, and Health Policy Scholar in the Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. \nAs co-director of the Texas Children’s CVD\, he leads a team and product development partnership for developing new vaccines for hookworm infection\, schistosomiasis\, leishmaniasis\, Chagas disease\, and SARS/MERS/SARS-2 coronavirus\, diseases affecting hundreds of millions of children and adults worldwide\, while championing access to vaccines globally and in the United States.   \nIn December 2021\, Dr. Hotez led efforts at the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development to develop a low-cost recombinant protein COVID vaccine for global health\, resulting in emergency use authorization in India. \nHe obtained his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics from Yale University in 1980 (phi beta kappa)\, followed by a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Rockefeller University in 1986\, and an M.D. from Weil Cornell Medical College in 1987.  Dr. Hotez has authored more than 600 original papers and is the author of five single-author books\, including Forgotten People\, Forgotten Diseases (ASM Press); Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth (Johns Hopkins University Press); Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism (Johns Hopkins University Press); and Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science (Johns Hopkins University Press). \nDr. Hotez served previously as President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene\, and he is founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. In 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative\, he co-founded the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases to provide access to essential medicines for hundreds of millions of people. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (Public Health Section) and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Public Policy Section).  In 2014-16\, he served in the Obama Administration as US Envoy\, focusing on vaccine diplomacy initiatives between the US Government and countries in the Middle East and North Africa.  In 2018\, he was appointed by the US State Department to serve on the Board of Governors for the US Israel Binational Science Foundation and is frequently called upon frequently to testify before US Congress. He has served on infectious disease task forces for two consecutive Texas Governors.  For these efforts in 2017 he was named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the 34 most influential people in health care\, while in 2018 he received the Sustained Leadership Award from Research! America. In 2022 Hotez and his colleague Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for “their work to develop and distribute a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine to people of the world without patent limitation.” \nMost recently as both a vaccine scientist and autism parent\, he has led national efforts to defend vaccines and to serve as an ardent champion of vaccines going up against a growing national “antivax” threat. In 2019\, he received the Award for Leadership in Advocacy for Vaccines from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  In 2021 he was recognized by scientific leadership awards from the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the AMA (American Medical Association)\, in addition to being recognized by the Anti-Defamation League with its annual Popkin Award for combating antisemitism. Dr. Hotez appears frequently on television (including BBC\, CNN\, Fox News\, and MSNBC)\, radio\, and in newspaper interviews (including the New York Times\, USA Today\, Washington Post\, and Wall Street Journal). \nThis event is free and open the public\, but registration is required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/dr-peter-hotez-on-vaccine-tikkun-global-vaccines-and-vaccinations-the-science-the-antiscience/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
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SUMMARY:Who Owns History? Centering Descendants in the Politics of Preservation
DESCRIPTION:It’s often said that the winners write the history. Most times\, the winners are also the landowners. Landowners control the narrative of the property they own. Who owns the land where your ancestors are buried? \nJoin Holocaust Museum Houston and Convict Leasing & Labor Project (CLLP) for a Juneteenth roundtable with grassroots activists and scholars on best practices of Black cemetery preservation\, and lingering questions on memorialization and the ethics of public history. This event will unpack why federal protections for cemeteries are necessary for marginalized groups in America and consider how past oppression has shaped the current tensions in conversation about preservation efforts. \nPanelists: \nDonna Y. StephensFounder and Chair of the Chattahoochee Brick Company Coalition. \nDr. Antoinette JacksonProfessor and Chair of the department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab. \nDr. Marco RobinsonAssistant Professor of History and the Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). \nFor more information on Convict Leasing & Labor Project: https://www.cllptx.org/ \nThis event is open to the public\, but registration is required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/who-owns-history-centering-descendants-in-the-politics-of-preservation/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
CATEGORIES:JUNETEENTH ROUNDTABLE
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SUMMARY:The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt
DESCRIPTION:In his newest book\, Dr. Avinoam Patt examines the heroic saga of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, analyzing how the revolt was mythologized in a way that captured the attention of Jews around the world\, allowing them to imagine what it might have been like to be there\, engaged in the struggle against the Nazi oppressor. Soon after the uprising in April 1943\, the transition to memorialization and mourning of those lost in the Holocaust solidified the event as a date to remember both the heroes and the martyrs of Warsaw and of European Jewry more broadly. \nAvinoam J. Patt (PhD) is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut. Previously he served at the Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Hartford and as the Miles Lerman Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nHe is the author of several books\, including Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press\, May 2009); co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of a collected volume on Jewish Displaced Persons\, titled We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (Wayne State University Press\, 2010). He is co-editor of The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism (Wayne State University Press\, 2019). Together with David Slucki and Gabriel Finder\, he is co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (April 2020) and\, with Laura Hilton\, is co-editor of Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press\, July 2020). \nThis event is in person. Admission is free\, but advanced registration is required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/the-jewish-heroes-of-warsaw-the-afterlife-of-the-revolt/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Genocide Awareness Month
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SUMMARY:A Historical View of the Assyrian Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Sabri Atman \nJoin Holocaust Museum Houston for the third lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series\, with Sabri Atman\, the founder and the director of the Assyrian Genocide Research\, SEEYFO CENTER. \nSabri Atman is and Assyrian who was born in Nsibin (Tur Abdin) in southeast Turkey\, moved to Austria due to political reasons\, and to Sweden five years later. He is a Swedish citizen. He has studied economics at the University of Gothenburg and has a master’s degree in human rights and genocide studies from Kingston University in London\, Siena University in Italy\, and Warsaw University in Poland. He also has a third master’s in history from Massachusetts.  \nHe is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas.  He is focusing on the impact of Islam-Jihad on the Assyrian genocide and the motive of the Kurds killing Assyrians.  \nSabri Atman continues to contribute immensely to worldwide awareness of the Assyrian Genocide. Atman is a member on The International Association of Genocide Scholars. \nThis event is in person. Admission is free\, but advanced registration is required.\n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/a-historical-view-of-the-assyrian-genocide/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Genocide Awareness Month
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T180000
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SUMMARY:Shared Histories\, Shared Stories: El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución
DESCRIPTION:Left: Dr. Christopher Carmona; Right: “El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American Experience of Land Theft\, Lynching\, and Resistance” book cover \nJoin Holocaust Museum Houston for the second lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series\, with Dr. Christopher Carmona\, author of El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American Experience of Land Theft\, Lynching\, and Resistance. \nThis presentation will discuss the shared histories of African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early 20th Century. After Reconstruction ended\, there was a significant rise in violence against African Americans culminating in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. For over 30 years African Americans had established Freedom towns which were Black towns with Black economies and Black run. These Freedom towns were all over the South and Texas. With the rise of what is called the New South came the KKK and its most powerful era. They destroyed and pushed African Americans off of their lands and destroyed their towns. For Mexican Americans in Texas\, the Texas Rangers were used as thugs to push Mexican American landowners off of their lands and de-enfranchise people of color. This was the deadliest and most violent era of state sponsored violence for people of color\, almost erased from American history. \nChristopher Carmona is the author of El Rinche: The Ghost Ranger of the Rio Grande\, which was a finalist for the 2019 Best Young Adult Novel for the Texas Institute of Letters. Currently\, he is working on finishing this series of YA novels. Book Two is out now. His short story collection\, The Road to Llorona Park\, won the 2016 NACCS Tejas Best Fiction Award and was listed as one of the top 8 Latinx books in 2016 by NBC News. He has a chapter in Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on Borderlands History discussing intergenerational trauma for Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley. \nAs an educational activist\, Carmona serves as a board member of the national award-winning organization\, Refusing To Forget\, which researches and promotes the history of violence against Mexican Americans and Latinos in the early 20th Century and beyond. Currently he serves as the Chair of the NACCS Tejas Foco Committee on Implementing MAS in PreK-12 Education in Texas. He was a leader in getting the TEKS-based Mexican American Studies High School Course approved by the Texas State Board of Education\, which is the only State Board approved Mexican American Studies course in the United States to date. He served on Responsible Ethnic Studies Textbook committee that was awarded the “float like a butterfly\, sting like a bee” award for excellence in educational leadership from the Mexican American School Board Association (MASBA). \nThis event is in person. Admission is free\, but advanced registration is required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/shared-histories-shared-stories-el-rinche-vol-2-revolucion/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Genocide Awareness Month
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Plunder" with Menachem Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the first lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series\, with the author of Plunder\, Menachem Kaiser. \nMenachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story\, woven from improbable events and profound revelations\, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast\, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research\, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent\, daring interrogation of inheritance—material\, spiritual\, familial\, and emotional. \nMenachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, New York\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nThe event will be hosted in person. Admission is free\, but advanced registration is required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://hmh.org/event/book-talk-plunder-with-menachem-kaiser/
LOCATION:In-person at HMH and on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Genocide Awareness Month
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