Holocaust Museum Houston Digital Newsletter November 2015

EXHIB I TS + EVENTS

Sojourn in the Shadowlands ON VIEW THROUGH MARCH 13, 2016 MINCBERG GALLERY Houston artist Michael Roque Collins’ series of sacred landscapes bring to mind both the suffering which humans are capable of bestowing on one another and aspects of the meditative and possibility of hope. With more than 30 oil-on-linen and mixed media paintings on black-and-white photographs, his images include areas of the Neuengamme, Buchenwald and Auschwitz memorial camps. “Sojourn in the Shadowlands” is generously underwritten by Title Sponsor, Rhona and Bruce Caress; Lead Sponsor, Bank of Texas; Patron Sponsors, The Sterling Family Foundation and Nina and Michael Zilka Endowment Fund; and Sponsors, Houston Baptist University, Mrs. W.W. Kreft, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation. Image:“ThreeRuins,”2008-2009,oilon linen,72”x10”, reveals from Collins’ memory the impression of a certain scene from the Auschwitz Concentration Memorial. The tent-like structures stand as symbols for the loss that occurred in these places. Courtesy, Michael Collins and LewAllen Galleries.

“Life Force Atrocities and the Assault on the Family in Times of Conflict” THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016, 6:30 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M. ALBERT AND ETHEL HERZSTEIN THEATER Elisa von Joeden-Forgey will discuss the attempt to destroy families in genocidal conflicts, in particular gendered violence. She will use examples from genocides such as the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Bosnia and Rwanda as well as conflicts in Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of Congo. Her latest comparative research project examines “genocidal atrocities,” or the ways in which perpetrators use family institutions and roles to torture their victims before killing them. These atrocities have occurred in cases of conflict that are not generally believed to constitute genocide, such as the Japanese sex slavery system in World War II and the recent war in Sierra Leone. Joeden-Forgey is an assistant professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University. Tickets are $5 for HMH members, seniors and students and $8 for nonmembers. Seating is limited, and advance registration is requested. To RSVP online, visit www.hmh. org/RegisterEvent.aspx.

Photographs by Roman Vishniac: A Selection from the Permanent Collection of Holocaust Museum Houston ON VIEW THROUGH JAN. 24, 2016 CENTRAL GALLERY Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to present the work of famed photographer Roman Vishniac, recently donated to HMH’s Permanent Collection by his daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, with the support of the International Center of Photography (ICP). The HMH exhibition is presented in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition, “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. On display at HMH will be 11 of Vishniac’s gelatin silver prints, highlighting Jewish life in Eastern Europe, ca. 1935-1938. This exhibition is generously underwritten by Joan and Stanford Alexander, in honor of Naomi Warren; Title Sponsor Holocaust Museum Houston Art Circle; and Patron sponsors Three Brothers Bakery and Susan D. Krohn Sarofim and is presented with special thanks to Dr. Anna Steinberger and Mara Vishniac Kohn for her generous gift and with the support of the International Center of Photography and United Airlines, official airline of Holocaust Museum Houston. Photo: Boy suffering from a toothache clutches a tattered school notebook, Slonim, ca. 1935-38. © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography.

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