July - December 2023 Program Guide

PROGRAM GUIDE

July - December 2023

PROGRAMS

July

Friday, July 7, at 1 p.m.

Summer Survivor Speaker Series

Tuesday, July 11, at 12 p.m.

Meet the Author: Alan Gratz

Wednesday, July 19, 6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

Special Exhibition Opening: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

Friday, July 21, at 1 p.m.

Summer Survivor Speaker Series: Magie Furst

August

Friday, August 4, at 1 p.m.

Summer Survivor Speaker Series: Hanna Schrob

Wednesday, August 9, at 7 p.m.

The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance in the Age of Jim Crow

Monday, August 14, at 12 p.m.

iRead Book Club: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

September

Thursday, September 7, at 7 p.m.

History Highlights: The Holocaust in Hungary

Tuesday, September 19, at 4 p.m. Member Open House

Wednesday, September 27, at 7 p.m.

Civil Discourse Series: The Supreme Court - Balance of Power

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is supported, in part, through the generosity of its members and donors, including the Hoblitzelle Foundation, City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, The Hirsch Family Foundation, and Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas.

October

Monday, October 2, at 12 p.m.

iRead Book Club: La Bailarina de Auschwitz

Wednesday, October 11, at 7 p.m.

Courageous in a Dangerous World: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Fight for Human Rights

Tuesday, October 17, at 9 a.m. Homeschool Day

Sunday, October 22, at 2 p.m.

Preserving Family Memories Workshop

Wednesday, October 25, at 5:30 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Dinner and Program Hope for Humanity

November

Wednesday, November 1, 6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

Mittelman-Berman Holocaust Education Series: Buried by The Times - The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper

Tuesday, November 7, at 7 p.m.

History Highlights: Wartime Upstanders

Wednesday, November 15, 6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series: Phyllis Frye

December

Tuesday, December 12, at 7 p.m.

Remembering Black Wall Street: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Visit www.dhhrm.org/programs to register.

FUNK FAMILY UPSTANDER SPEAKER SERIES

PHYLLIS FRYE

Wednesday, November 15

6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

In person at the Museum

$10 per Person | Free for Members

Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Eagle Scout, a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, an Army veteran (1st Lt.), an engineer, an attorney, a father, a grandmother, and a lesbian widow. She is also the first out transgender judge in the nation. In 1976, when she transitioned to being “out,” she faced the possibility of arrest because of a Houston city ordinance prohibiting cross-dressing. After four years of Frye’s lobbying, the Houston City Council voted to repeal the ordinance in 1980. Having lived over 60% of her life as the woman she always felt herself to be, she remains on the cutting edge of the LGBTQ+ community. When the gay community was still ignoring or marginalizing transgender people the early 1990s, she began the national transgender legal and political movement with six annual transgender law conferences and the grassroots training of future activists, lawyers, and bloggers. Thus, she is known as the movement's "grandmother". She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s highest honor, the Dan Bradley Award, and the National Center for Transgender Equality’s Julie Johnson Founder's Award. Her biography, Phyllis Frye and the Fight for Transgender Rights, was published in 2022. She retired from her law practice in August 2021 and retired as an associate judge in 2023.

ANCHOR SERIES SPONSOR:

The Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series showcases individuals and organizations who stand up for human rights on a local, national, or global level.

Named in loving memory of Blanche & Max Goldberg | Fannie & Isaac Funk

CIVIL DISCOURSE SERIES

The Civil Discourse Series presents multiple sides of a thought-provoking topic through respectful discussion. For each event, the Museum convenes a panel of experts to represent their perspectives on an issue related to human and civil rights.

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT: BALANCE OF POWER

Wednesday, September 27, at 7 p.m. In person at the Museum | Free

The U.S. Supreme Court represents a key branch of the country's democratic system, holding immense power and responsibility to interpret the Constitution, and protect liberty and civil rights for all Americans. In recent years, Supreme Court decisions have stirred public discourse about its role and influence. Is it wielding its authority in line with its original purpose, and how can it best serve the American people? Legal experts discuss the structure of the Supreme Court, how it has evolved since its formation, and what role it should play in the lives of Americans.

PRESENTED BY:

Special exhibition | On view July 20 - December 31, 2023

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years after the Civil War. By 1868, slavery was abolished and all persons born in the United States were citizens and equal before the law, but efforts to create an interracial democracy were contested from the start. A harsh backlash ensued, ushering in the “separate but equal” age of Jim Crow in which a system of secondclass citizenship and racial segregation was put in place across the nation. The exhibition takes visitors from the Civil War to the end of World War I and examines how African Americans advocated for their rights. Art, artifacts, photographs, and media illustrate these transformative decades in American history.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow concludes with an exploration of Black military service during World War I and the struggle for equality in the decades to follow. The passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, the most significant civil rights bills since Reconstruction, signaled the end of legalized Jim Crow, though the struggle for full citizenship continued.

This exhibition has been organized by the New-York Historical Society.

Anchor Sponsors

Lead support for the exhibition provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Major support provided by the Ford Foundation, and Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire.

Airline Sponsor Transportation Sponsor Exhibition Sponsors Patron Sponsor

SPECIAL EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

Special Exhibition Opening

Wednesday, July 19

6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

In person at the Museum

$10 per person | Free for Members

PRESENTED BY:

In the years following the Civil War, newly free slaves congregated in hundreds of freedmen’s towns, also called freedom colonies, throughout the U.S. Join us for the opening of Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow with a discussion on Texas freedom colonies, including their creation and erasure, their cultural and historical significance, and ongoing efforts to identify, preserve, and protect these settlements.

The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance in the Age of Jim Crow

Wednesday, August 9

7 p.m. Program | 8 p.m. Jazz Performance & Reception

In person at the Museum | Free

In the early 20th century, millions of Black Americans migrated to large Northern cities, fleeing racial violence in the Jim Crow South and pursuing economic opportunities. In Harlem, the congregation of some of the nation’s best writers, artists, and performers led to a cultural explosion and a shift in the understanding of the Black experience in the United States. Hear about the impact of the Harlem Renaissance and enjoy a live jazz performance from Dallas singer/songwriter Andrea Wallace. This program is presented in partnership with The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.

Remembering Black Wall Street: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Tuesday, December 12, at 7 p.m.

In person at the Museum | Free

In Tulsa’s Greenwood District, “Black Wall Street” was a thriving area of Black-owned businesses and commerce until June 1921, when a white mob burned much of it to the ground and an estimated 300 residents were killed. One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history, the Tulsa Race Massacre followed years of anti-Black prejudice, terrorism, and riots around the country. Learn more about the Greenwood District, the aftermath of the massacre, efforts to memorialize the victims, and recognize survivors and their descendants.

MITTELMAN-BERMAN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION SERIES

BURIED BY THE TIMES: THE HOLOCAUST AND AMERICA’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWSPAPER

Wednesday, November 1

6 p.m. Reception | 7 p.m. Program

In person at the Museum | Free

As news of the horrors of the Holocaust spread beyond Europe to the rest of the world, major publications had to decide how they would cover the murder of European Jews under Hitler’s Final Solution. In Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, Laurel Leff, veteran journalist and professor of journalism at Northeastern University, asserts that The New York Times consistently and purposefully downplayed the Holocaust, burying the mass murder of Jews in its back pages. Join Professor Leff for a discussion of her research on The Times’ response to the Holocaust and its impact on the greater understanding of the American public.

The Mittelman-Berman Holocaust Education Series features annual programming on Holocaust history. The series is generously supported by Julie Meetal Berman and Dr. Joseph M. Berman, M.D., in memory of Les and Magda Mittelman.

SUMMER SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES

Friday, July 7, at 1 p.m. | Friday, July 21, at 1 p.m. | Friday, August 4, at 1 p.m. In person at the Museum and Virtual via Zoom | Free

Join us on select Fridays during the summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second-generation survivors. There is no cost to attend these events, but registration is required. If you would like to tour the Museum’s exhibitions, normal admission fees apply.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

Our History Highlights lecture series features Holocaust and human rights topics presented by Museum historians and educators.

The Holocaust in Hungary

Thursday, September 7, at 7 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom | Free

For much of the Holocaust, Hungarian Jews lived in relative safety thanks to their country's alliance with Germany. They were targets of anti-Jewish laws limiting their participation in the economy and subjecting Jewish men to a labor service draft, but were largely spared mass violence until the German invasion of March 1944. In the Holocaust's most rapid deportation, over 400,000 Hungarian Jews were transported from the countryside primarily to Auschwitz, where most were gassed upon arrival. Jews in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, were spared deportation – but not mass violence. Highlighting survivor testimonies from the Museum’s oral history collection, Dr. Sara Abosch-Jacobson, the Barbara Rabin chief education officer, and Felicia Williamson, director of library and archives, discuss the experiences of Budapest’s Jews during the Holocaust.

Wartime Upstanders

Tuesday, November 7, at 7 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom | Free

When the United States entered World War II, it called upon its citizens to make sacrifices for the war effort and take up arms to defend democracy. Millions of Americans, including many who were treated as second-class citizens in their own country, answered the call. In honor of Veterans Day, Dr. Sara Abosch-Jacobson, the Barbara Rabin chief education officer, and Dr. Charlotte Decoster, senior director of education, share the stories of three World War II Upstanders – Héctor P. García, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Dorie Miller – who fought for equal rights for their fellow service members and veterans.

PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS

Candy Brown Holocaust and Human Rights Educator Series

In person at the Museum with virtual options

$25 per session

The series allows educators, librarians, and counselors to connect with the Museum on multiple dates throughout the year on topics related to the Museum’s educational mission. Registration for each session includes a keynote presentation, a classroom resource kit, access to our Upstander Education Database, CPE credit, and more. Educators who register for all sessions will receive premium access to our Inspire Upstander Education Database and free Museum Membership.

Field Trips and Programs

During field trips and educational programs, students encounter the history of the Holocaust and human rights, and are encouraged to think through the most fundamental questions about human nature. We open minds, one student at a time.

Field trips are available in person at the Museum and virtually for students in sixth grade and above. Interactive education programs at the Museum, at a school, or virtually are available for grades K-12.

Virtual field trips and select virtual education programs are available in Spanish. Las excursiones virtuales y los programas de educación virtual seleccionados están disponibles en español.

Homeschool Day

Tuesday, October 17, at 9 a.m.

In person at the Museum | $10 per Person

Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a day of learning for homeschooled students. Activities include a tour of the Museum's permanent exhibition, a Dimensions in Testimony experience, and an interactive classroom program.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING

Meet the Author: Alan

Gratz

Tuesday, July 11, at 12 p.m.

In person at the Museum | Free

Alan Gratz is a New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels and graphic novels for young readers. He will discuss writing difficult topics, the stories' impact on students, and the inspiration behind some of his books. His novel Refugee, tells the stories of three young refugees escaping conflict, and Prisoner B-3087, is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, who survived 10 different concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Courageous in a Dangerous World:

Eleanor

Roosevelt and the Fight for Human Rights

Wednesday, October 11, at 7 p.m.

In person at the Museum | Free

Program supported by Ronit and Haviv Ilan

Eleanor Roosevelt has a rich legacy – as first lady of the United States, a champion of social change, and a prolific writer. But much of her influential work came after she left the White House. As the world grappled with the aftermath of a global war and a devastating genocide, Roosevelt became an outspoken leader in the fight for human rights and democratic reform, both at home and abroad. Dr. Allida M. Black, a leading expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, discusses how Roosevelt worked tirelessly to advance human rights around the world.

This program is presented in conjunction with the Candy Brown Holocaust and Human Rights Educator Series.

This program is presented in conjunction with the Candy Brown Holocaust and Human Rights Educator Series.

iREAD BOOK CLUB

Join us for a book club led by Museum historians and educators.

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

Monday, August 14, 12 p.m.

In person at the Museum and virtually via Zoom | Free

When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper in a small village in the English countryside, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century. Brought together by a shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more. Although the major was actually born in Pakistan and Mrs. Ali was born in England, villagers insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. The major has always taken special pride in the village, but will he be forced to choose between the place he calls home and a future with Mrs. Ali?

La Bailarina de Auschwitz

Lunes, 2 de octubre, a las 12 p.m.

En persona en el museo y virtual en Zoom | Gratis

Eger tenía 16 años cuando los nazis invadieron su pueblo de Hungría y se la llevaron con el resto de su familia a Auschwitz. Al pisar el campo, sus padres fueron enviados a la cámara de gas y ella permaneció junto a su hermana, pendiente de una muerte segura. Pero bailar El Danubio Azul para Mengele salvó su vida, y a partir de entonces empezó una nueva lucha por la supervivencia. Primero en los campos de exterminio, luego en la Checoslovaquia tomada por los comunistas y, finalmente, en Estados Unidos, donde acabaría convirtiéndose en discípula de Viktor Frankl. Fue en ese momento, tras décadas ocultando su pasado, cuando se dio cuenta de la necesidad de curar sus heridas, de hablar del horror que había vivido y de perdonar como camino a la sanación. Su mensaje es claro: tenemos la capacidad de escapar de las prisiones que construimos en nuestras mentes y podemos elegir ser libres, sean cuales sean las circunstancias de nuestra vida.

Este programa es parte del club de lectura del museo. Esta discusión será presentado en español. This discussion will be presented in Spanish.

PRESERVING THE PAST

Preserving Family Memories Workshop

Sunday, October 22, 2 p.m. | In person at the Museum | Free

Whether in the attic or boxes under the bed, most of us save family heirlooms, photographs, letters, and artifacts that are important to us. Preserving these precious items is a challenge and can be expensive. Led by archivists from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and Dallas Jewish Historical Society, this workshop provides commonsense solutions to the most frequent challenges of home preservation.

Participants are encouraged to bring one or two items they wish to preserve. Photos and/or documents are recommended. Please, no bulky items.

HOPE FOR HUMANITY LIES IN EACH OF US.

Join us for an inspirational evening of hope when the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum honors local Holocaust survivors and pays tribute to an outstanding individual who demonstrates a dedication to the improvement of society and an embodiment of the Museum’s mission.

This year, we are proud to honor longtime supporter and Lifetime Director Larry Schoenbrun for his tireless commitment to supporting nonprofit organizations throughout our community. The son of Eastern European refugees who fled the Holocaust, Larry has been a passionate defender of civil rights worldwide, devoting his pro bono work to helping those facing persecution and seeking asylum.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hyatt Regency Dallas

300 Reunion Blvd | Dallas, TX 75207

5:30 p.m. Registration and Cocktails

7 p.m. Welcome and Dinner | 8 p.m. Program

Tables of 10 start at $6,000 | Single tickets $600 (limited availability)

www.DHHRM.org/Hope | Events@dhhrm.org | 469-399-5202

Table sponsors receive priority seating over single tickets. This is a fundraiser event benefiting the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

The Museum offers interactive programs led by its educators that challenge participants to reflect upon their professional and personal responsibilities. Choose from the options below for a one-time program or curate your own series.

• Holocaust History and Complicity

• Uncovering Dallas Civil Rights

• What is an Upstander?

• Understanding Unconscious Bias

• Texas Upstanders: A Diverse Group

• Slippery Slope During the Holocaust

• Antisemitism: History and Impact

• History Talks

• Artifact Interaction

• Equality and Equity

Programs can be held in person at the Museum, off-site, or virtually, and can be scheduled in conjunction with a tour.

MEMBERSHIP

Become a Museum member and receive exclusive benefits and early access to programming. Starting at $60, membership includes free admission, program discounts, access to our digital content, and more! Members receive a discount online or in the Museum Store when shopping for Holocaust and human rights-related books, accessories, and gifts.

Member support ensures that the lessons of history live on. By sharing this history, the Museum encourages Upstander behavior and teaches each of us how to make a difference.

469-399-5210 | www.DHHRM.org/membership

You gave me and my classmates an experience that we will always remember and you taught me new things that I didn't know about the Holocaust. I now know the definition of an Upstander and I will make sure I always keep that mindset. The Museum was very beautiful and made learning more enjoyable. The displays had so much detail, you can feel the emotions within the art.

~ 11th Grade Student, Liberty-Eylau HS

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum