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Thursday, June 6th at 6:30pm, the Dallas Holocaust Museum presents: “How the Holocaust Got a Lot More Shocking,” a discussion lead by Dr. Geoffrey Megargee.

Dr. Geoffrey Megargee is at the heart of the thirteen-year research project that lead to the shocking discovery of 42,500 camps and ghettos across Europe. He and other historians anticipated there would be 7,000 camps and ghettos. This story captured world interest with an explosive article in the New York Times in March 2013.

GEOFFREY MEGARGEE GIVES US THE DETAILS OF THE RESEARCH AND DISCOVERIES ON
THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH, 2013 AT 6:30 P.M. AT SMU, DALLAS HALL IN THE MCCORD AUDITORIUM.

Dr. Megargee is Senior Applied Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, where he is the project leader and editor-in-chief for the Museum’s seven-volume Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, the first two volumes of which are out (2009 and 2012).

As a humanitarian aid worker, Carl Wilkens moved his young family to Rwanda in the spring of 1990. When the genocide was launched in April 1994, Carl refused to leave, even when urged to do so by close friends, his church and the United States government.

Thousands of expatriates evacuated and the United Nations pulled out most of its troops. Carl sent his family out with an American convoy and was the only American to remain in the country. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles in order to bring food, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. His actions saved the lives of hundreds.

Carl Wilken’s determination to protect his friends who were mostly Tutsi does not end there. Please join the Museum on May 16 at 6:30 p.m. to hear Carl Wilkens’ full story.

Carl Wilkens says his eyewitness story of what happened in Rwanda in 1994 is not about genocide. He says, “It is about choices people made, actions people took, courage people showed, and sacrifices people gave in the face of genocide.”

Carl Wilkens is currently the Director of World Outside My Shoes. Carl Wilkens is the former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. Admission is $5 for teachers, students and DHM/CET members; $20 for non-members; $10 for members; FREE for Circle of Remembrance-level members of the DHM.

Saturday, May 18th, at 2pm the PBS film Ghosts of Rwanda, featuring Carl Wilkens, will be shown at the DHM/CET theater. This film is free. Admissions to the Museum for tours is $6-$8.

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Mark Bryan Rigg spent years researching his book, canvassing Germany and interviewing countless individuals, ultimately accumulating over 30,000 pages of records. Since then he has produced a stunning work, uncovering stories and a history that few have heard.

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The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen “guests” hid inside the Zabinskis’ villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.

With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her. 8 pages of illustrations

Saturday, April 13, at 2pm:  screening the film ”Between Pain and Longing.”

Saturday, April 20, at 2pm: film “Anti-Nazi: My Opposition, The Diaries of Friederich Kellner.”  Kellner was a German justice official who spoke out against the Nazi Party during WWII. It is a 2007 documentary television film about an orphaned American who went in search of his German grandfather and discovered a secret diary written during the time of the Third Reich.

April 8, open to the public
April 17, 6:30 p.m., opening reception

On loan from the world’s premiere Holocaust memorial museum, a special exhibit makes its first North American appearance at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance: A Monument of Good Deeds.

Through photographs, paintings and illustrations taken, painted and drawn by young people during the Holocaust, this unforgettable exhibit reminds us all not only of what is lost to us but why we must never forget “good deeds” and celebrate their occurrence as an act of both memory and testimony.

Based on the vision of an empty classroom where thirteen victims of the Holocaust once sat, the exhibition features 13 interactive and educational panels displayed on chalkboards. Through sketches, poems, diaries and handmade games, we are invited into their lives to experience their hopes, dreams and fears.

What’s evident from the exhibit is that these young people—innocent, creative, enduring—expect to return to a normal life.

But, as we come to realize through the exhibit, many of the 13 will die—representative of the 6 million Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

Yet, some of them survive, we learn, and, after rebuilding their lives, go on to lead lives of tremendous generosity. Good deeds.

For visitors to the exhibition, an invitation awaits. Some of the chalkboards offer interactive experiences, enabling hands-on participation not by mere classroom observers but participants who may ultimately express their interpretation of the classroom environment they experience.

Finally, the exhibit reveals the back story of Donya Rosen, a 10-year-old child hiding in a forest and missing her family, who leaves a note asking for the building of a monument built from good deeds—a monument not in honor of her life and other children who suffer horrific deeds—but for children yet to come, so that future generations would encounter only good deeds.

The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, 211 N. Record Street, Dallas, TX 75202 (In the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas at the southwest corner of Pacific and Record.)  Monday-Friday, 9:30 am-5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11: am-5pm.

“I wish you would build a monument for us.  One that would reach the sky. A pillar that the whole world would be able to see – a statue not from marble and not from stone, rather from good deeds. I believe in complete faith, that only a monument made this way, could secure a better future for you and for your children.”

—Donya Rosen, age 10, written on a scrap of paper while hiding in a forest on June 23, 1943

The event starts at 6:30pm with a strictly kosher reception prepared by Stephen Pyles. The movie starts at 7pm, and will be followed with a panel discussion at 8pm.  RSVP by message through FB or send an email to pnourse@dallasholocaustmuseum.org

Sponsored by HBO and presented by the DHM in conjunction Three Star Cinema and the USHMM.