CapitalCampaignReportJUNE2017

WHO STOOD UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS? AND MINI-THEATER • Attitudes • Knowledge • Skills • Action

HUMAN RIGHTS GALLERY

The Human Rights, Genocide and call to action exhibits in the Human Rights Gallery will be primary tools in the teaching and outreach efforts of Holocaust Museum Houston. Human rights are at the heart of the Museum, and recent exhibits and curriculum guides focus on human rights questions and modern issues, such as “The Art of Gaman,” which featured handmade folk art created by the detainees from the U.S. Japanese internment camps during World War II. The first floor will feature a new Interfaith Pool of Reflection, part of The Boniuk Center for the Future of Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Studies. This beautiful, tranquil space will lend itself to meditation and reflection, encouraging visitors to take the time to quietly think through the challenges that face us, as well as the solutions we can compassionately reach. The Holocaust does not stand alone as the only modern genocide. It is imperative that visitors bridge the divide between cultures and understand the lessons learned from modern genocides. Genocide studies will include collaborations with Houston’s Serbian, Croatian and Cambodian communities, as well as the greater Houston Holocaust Survivor community, Darfur and Rwandan refugee communities. By exchanging shared experiences, members of the diverse Houston community draw close to one another, creating a rich fabric of lessons learned while outlining positive actions for the youth of tomorrow. This diversity of experience lends strength to all local survivors of modern genocide and creates a strong and caring Houston community. Holocaust Museum Houston’s Human Rights Gallery also features the call to action exhibit, “What Can We Do?”. We will seek to engage visitors to understand the lessons explored at the Museum. Visitors are asked to think critically, understanding intricate and age-old problems. Holocaust Museum Houston challenges children and adults to engage with one another, and the outside world, to understand their calling relative to these social ills, and the choices that one single person can make to turn the tide and combat hatred and prejudice.

WHAT CAN WE DO? • Exemplars • Defenders • Movements

WHY DO ATROCITIES HAPPEN? AND MINI-THEATER • Definition • Causes/Stages • Timeline • Efforts for Justice & Reconciliation WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS? AND MINI-THEATER • Key Principles • Origins • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • How Protected

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