Holocaust Museum Houston

UPCOMINGEVENTS

MUSEUMEXPERIENCEFEATURESEIGHTMUSEUMS TheMuseumExperience Saturday, April 26, 2014, 10 a.m. to5p.m. Morgan FamilyCenter Get to know the new Houston Museum District Day by joining the Museum Experience. Featured museums in Zone 2 set for Saturday, April 26, are Holocaust Museum Houston, Asia Society Texas Center, The Weather Museum, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Czech Center Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Lawndale Art Center and the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. For more information, visit http://www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org. YOMHASHOAH COMMEMORATIONPAYS TRIBUTE Citywide YomHaShoah Commemoration Sunday, April 27, 2014, 3p.m. CongregationBethYeshurun, 4525Beechnut, Houston, TX77096 Join us for Houston’s annual YomHaShoah commemorative service inmemory of all who died in theHolocaust and to pay tribute to thosewho survived. The service is free andopen to the public. AMBASSADORTODISCUSSCAMBODIANKILLING FIELDS “From theKillingFields to theWhiteHouse” Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6:30p.m. to8p.m. Albert andEthel Herzstein Theater WhiletheUnitedStatesbattledVietnameseCommunists inthe1960sand1970s, in neighboringCambodia, dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declaredwar on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering anybody who disagreed with them. SichanSiv knewhewouldsoonbea target—endingup, perhaps, asone of themillions of anonymous human skeletonsburied inhis nation’s killing fields soheheededhismother’spleas and ran. Capturedand forced toperform slave labor, Siv feared that hewouldbeworked todeathor killed. Itwasonly amatter of time. But henever abandonedhopeor his improbabledreamof freedom— a dream that liberated him, astonishingly, from his brutal captors and ultimately led him to the United States, where he later became a senior White House aide. Ambassador Siv is the author of “Golden Bones,” which chronicles his experiences.Hewilldiscusshiswork inthispublic lecture.Ticketsare$5 forHMH members , seniors and students and$8 for nonmembers. ToRSVPonline, visit www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx.

CURIOUSGEORGEMAKESFINALAPPEARANCE “CuriousGeorgeArts andCraftsStory Time” Saturday, May 10, 2014, 2p.m. to4p.m. Laurie andMiltonResourceCenter and Library

Bring the kids to relax on colorful bean bags in our library for “Story Time” while readers from theHoustonCenter for Literacy andHoustonPublic Library read from books about the cartoon character “Curious George.” “Story Time” admission is free, but advance registration is required. Visit ww.hmh.org/ RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online. This activity is presented in conjunction “TheWartimeEscape:Margret andH.A.Rey’s Journey fromFrance,”which runs through June15.