Fall 2019 Bearing Witness Magazine and Gratitude Report

CURATORIAL

ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The exhibition tells the compelling story of the California farm workers labor movement of the 1960s and 1970s and explores Dolores Huerta’s impact as a cofounder and leading strategist of the United Farm Workers union.

Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los Campos is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. This exhibition received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.

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Harvey Wilson Richards. Harvey Richards Media Archive

DANNY LYON: MEMORIES OF THE SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Photograph courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives and Library

Holocaust Museum Houston presents The Book Smugglers

On view through January 5, 2020 Spira Central Gallery

The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.” According to Fishman, “most of us are aware of the Holocaust as the greatest genocide in history. We’ve seen the images of concentration camps and piles of dead bodies. But few of us think of the Holocaust as an act of cultural plunder and destruction… At its heart, The Book Smugglers is a personal story: a story about people.”

readiness to risk one’s life–to literature and art.

In March 2020, the Museum will proudly present The Book Smugglers , an intriguing and thought-provoking exhibition based on David E. Fishman’s book of the same title. The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable true story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion–including the

The exhibition is curated by the Museum’s Chief Curator of Collections & Exhibitions Carol Manley with input from Fishman. The exhibition will be presented in English and Spanish, making it more accessible to a wider audience. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author’s interviews with several of the story’s participants,

March on Washington, August 28, 1963 © Danny Lyon/Courtesy Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions

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