SPECIAL EVENTS

During April, Holocaust Museum Houston presents Genocide Awareness Month, working to raise awareness about genocide and actions individuals and groups can take to end genocide. Several genocides began in April or have a major anniversary in the month. For this reason, many organizations and institutions around the world have set aside April to be a month of genocide awareness and action against genocide.Genocide Awareness Month

The Museum has many activities and programs for all ages during the month. The theme for genocide awareness month is learning to be an upstander – a person who stands up for others and takes actions on their behalf.

Thirty activities – one for each day of the month – are being highlighted as positive steps individuals and groups can take to stop genocide starting today.

A highlight of the month is “Make a Strike Against Genocide,” a family bowling outing scheduled for Sunday, April 3, at Dave & Busters, 7620 Katy Freeway, Suite 100 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. The event will begin with a family-friendly overview of genocide and what can be done to stop genocide. A bowling competition will begin afterward, with prizes for each strike and a grand prize for the top adult score and the top youth score.

Also planned is a genocide film series featuring “The Last Survivor” on Thursday, April 7; “Sometimes in April” on Thursday, April 21; and “Darfur Diaries” on Wednesday, April 27.

Internationally renowned genocide scholar Samuel Totten will present the lecture, “Genocide Yesterday and Today” on Wednesday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater.

Also during the month, the Museum will host the HMH Members Book Club focused on the book “Something Remains: Understanding the Holocaust” by Inge Barth-Grözinger. There will be two separate clubs: one for youths in grades 6 through 10 and one for adults. These newly-formed groups will allow for a close reading of this novel and allow participants to apply historical fiction to deepen and enrich an understanding of how the Holocaust occurred, learn about one individual’s experience and one town’s experiences during the early years of the Nazi period and to analyze the complexity of the events of the early parts of the Holocaust and individual reactions to those events.

Genocide Awareness Month Activities:

Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, 5 p.m.
Registration Deadline: HMH Members Book Club: “Something Remains: Understanding the Holocaust”

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
HMH Members Book Club: “Something Remains: Understanding the Holocaust”
Avrohm I. Wisenberg Multipurpose Learning Center

April 3, 2011 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Make a “Strike Against Genocide”
Dave & Busters, 7620 Katy Freeway, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77024

Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“Genocide Gives Me the Blues: An HMH Cultural Bridges Event”
Sambuca, 909 Texas Ave., Houston, TX 77002

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
“The Last Survivor”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
HMH Members Book Club: “Something Remains: Understanding the Holocaust”
Avrohm I. Wisenberg Multipurpose Learning Center.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
"Genocide Yesterday and Today: A Talk by Samuel Totten"
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
“Sometimes in April”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
“Darfur Diaries”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

Thursday, April 28, 2011, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
HMH Members Book Club: “Something Remains: Understanding the Holocaust”
Avrohm I. Wisenberg Multipurpose Learning Center

 The month’s activities are generously underwritten by Elizabeth and Alan Stein, with special thanks to United Airlines, official airline of Holocaust Museum Houston.