2018 Fall Bearing Witness Magazine

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Americans and the Holocaust with Dr. Daniel Greene Thursday, December 6, 2018 6:30 PM - 8 PM Location: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater Northwestern University history professor Dr. Daniel Greene curated the exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust , which opened earlier this year at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The exhibition dispels some of history's myths and misconceptions, including that Americans "knew nothing" about the threat of Nazism during

2018 Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States

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23 rd Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner Honoring President George W. Bush Raises Record $4.2 Million Smith family chairs largest dinner fundraiser in history of Holocaust Museum Houston

the 1930s and '40s. Greene will discuss the process of creating the exhibition, examine Americans' responses to Nazism and ask why rescue of Jews never became a priority for most Americans.

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Forced Into Genocide: Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army with Adrienne Alexanian Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:30 PM - 8 PM Location: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater The memoir, “Forced into Genocide,” was edited by Adrienne Alexanian, from her father Yervant Edward Alexanian’s handwritten chronicles. As an Armenian conscript in the Turkish army, Yervant was an unwilling eyewitness to the massacre and displacement of his countrymen in Ottoman Turkey Curator Talk with Dr. Astrid Ley Tuesday, January 15, 2019 6:30 PM - 8 PM Location: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater Dr. Astrid Ley, deputy director of Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum will discuss curating the exhibit, In the Country of Numbers, where the men have no names. It is through interviews with family members of the 2nd and 3rd generation of those who survived the Pogrom Night of November 1938, that the idea for this exhibition was conceived. Upon visiting the Sachsenhausen Memorial, families

today’s pressing challenges. President Bush’s focus on our military servicemen and woman, veterans, and their families was most notably recognized in his recent book New York Times bestseller, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, which honors the courage and sacrifice of America’s veterans. TheeveningwaschairedbyLesterandSueSmith and Lester’s children and their spouses, Shelly and Brian Hendry and Limor and Stuart Smith. Honorary chairs included The Bush Family, Senator Joe Lieberman, Margaret Alkek Williams and City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Mady and Ken Kades served as host committee chairs. In lieu of a keynote speech, The Honorable Fred Zeidman, Chairman Emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, facilitated an engaging conversation with President Bush discussing key events during his time as President and his life since leaving office. The VIP reception was generously underwritten by The Astros Foundation, with the general reception sponsored by Tenenbaum Jewelers. Special thanks also goes out to The Events Company, PaperCity, United Airlines and Vision Productions.

Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) celebrated its 23rd Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner Thursday, May 24, 2018, by honoring George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States. One of Houston’s largest philanthropic events boasting 1,150 guests at Hilton Americas-Houston, the annual dinner raised a record-breaking $4.2 million to support the worldwide educational programs of the Museum. The prior record was $2.1 million raised at the 2005 LBJ dinner. Holocaust Museum Houston presents the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award to individuals who have taken a stand against injustice, hatred and prejudice, and used their skills and influence to make a better world for all people. During his tenure, President Bush provided leadership and moral courage to keep Americans safe after the horrific September 11 attacks. Additionally, he used this same resolve to launch humanitarian initiatives to provide more than $3.3 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Today, President Bush’s attention is on the Bush Institute, the nonpartisan, public policy arm of the Bush Center, which engages communities in the United States and around the world by developing leaders, advancing policy, and taking action to solve

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were asked how their own lives had been affected by the events of 1938, their memories of parents or grandparents, and what they had been told about the arrests, imprisonment, violence, flight and exile.

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during WWI. Alexanian was forced to become an onlooker while he watched the atrocities unfold. His story of resourceful action and fateful turn is a suspenseful “insider’s account” of a Genocide survivor.

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