Holocaust Museum Houston Digital Newsletter November 2015

NEWS

NEXTGen Installs New Leadership NEXTGen has rebranded the organization and taken on a chair to move it forward with young professionals in the coming year. Jessica Hart, the new chair of the group, attended The University of Texas, majored in business and went on to attend law school at Baylor University. She began her practice here in Houston at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, focusing on commercial litigation and internal investigations. After five years of practice, she Jessica Hart

changed career paths and became the director of operations of the Harris County Republican Party during the 2014 elections and currently works for the United States Senate, serving as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s regional director. The NEXTGen group is hoping to continue the momentum the organization has had in the last few years, building on its success with three signature events this past year: a fall Membership Party, its annual “Conversation with a Survivor” event, and its Bocce Ball fundraiser for HMH in remembrance of NEXTGen member Grant Gordon.

HMH Plans “Monuments Men” Tour of European Holocaust Sites

and women worked, beginning June 14, 2016, and continuing through June 27. Destinations will include Paris; the Normandy region of France; Cologne, Germany; Siegen and Merkers, Germany, where hundreds of repositories were discovered as American troops crossed Germany en route to Berlin; and continuing on to Munich. For a complete itinerary, pricing and reservation information, visit www.hmh.org.

Officially called the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section (MFAA), the “Monuments Men” were a group of 345 men and women – museum directors, curators, art historians, architects, archaeologists and educators – tasked with the location, protection, conservation and repatriation of European art, architecture and material culture of nations during and after World War II. These men and women quite literally saved Western civilization’s treasures. Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to announce a special tour of Europe, focusing on many of the places these men Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Officer James Rorimer supervises U.S. soldiers recovering looted paintings from Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany during World War II, April-May, 1945. Courtesy, The National Archives.

Aerial view of Altaussee salt mines, 1945. Courtesy, Archives of American Art.

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