LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Holocaust Museum Houston presents the lecture The Glass House Exhibition, Monday, March 28, 2011, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

Join Cultural Bridges, an outreach program of Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Consulate of Switzerland for an evening with Agnes Hirschi, daughter of Carl Lutz, (pictured) the Swiss vice consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II who helped save thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Lutz is credited with saving more than 62,000 Jews and was awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem in 1965. Hirschi will speak about her father and the “Glass House Exhibition,” which tells the story of a house that served as a safe haven in 1944 for thousands of people.

Hirschi was born in London, shortly before World War II broke out. She spent her early years in Budapest. Although she was only a little girl of six during the last and worse time of the war in the Hungarian capital, she remembers wartime vividly. She spent the last two months of the war together with the Lutz family in a bomb shelter together with 30 other persons; with people who were personnel of the Swiss delegation as well as Hungarian policemen and British and American citizens whose houses had been bombed.

The building was hit by 20 fire bombs and completely burned down over their heads.

This exhibit and presentation is made possible thanks to the Consulate of Hungary, the Consulate of Switzerland and the Glass House Exhibition.

Admission is free, but seating is limited, and advance registration is required. Visit www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx  to RSVP online. For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail culturalbridges@hmh.org.