FROM THE CHA IR
Executive Director
Kelly J. Zúñiga, Ed.D.
Editor
Ira D. Perry
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Board of Trustees FY15-16
Chair Gail Klein
Chair–Elect Gary Markowitz
Vice Chairs
ADMINISTRATION Eileen Weisman
DEVELOPMENT Benjamin Warren
FACILITIES Butch Mach
EDUCATION Jerry Rochman
OUTREACH Cheryl Golub
SURVIVOR SERVICES Hyman Penn, M.D.
Secretary Jennifer B. Stockel
Treasurer Daniel P. Gordon
Immediate Past Chair Mark Mucasey
Ex-Officio
Kelly J. Zúñiga, Ed.D.
Executive Director | Holocaust Museum Houston
Rick Kaplan
Chair | Holocaust Museum Houston Foundation
Trustees
Crystal E. Ashby
David P. Bell, Ed.D.
Tali Blumrosen
Nancy S. Dinerstein
Steve Estrin
Heidi Gerger
Laura Jaramillo
David Lavine
Nancy Li
Edith Mincberg
Michael Morgan
Corey F. Powell
Kim Ruth
Tracey Shappro
Anna Steinberger, Ph.D.
Alberta Totz
Haya Varon
Inna Wizig
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What an honor it is to
serve as chair of Holocaust
Museum Houston and to
share my goals with you
for this milestone year.
January will usher in the
year of The Butterfly Project
and our 20th anniversary
celebration!
As a founding Board
member 27 years ago, I have continued
my deep involvement with the Museum. My
mother, Renee Danziger, of blessed memory
and to whom I dedicate my chairpersonship,
was a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-
Belsen. Having recently visited Auschwitz-
Birkenau, I am now even more passionate to
further HMH’s powerful mission.
We are indeed fortunate to have such a
dedicated staff under the leadership of
Executive Director Dr. Kelly J. Zúñiga along
with Managing Director and Director of
Public Programs Tamara Savage, as well as a
devoted Board of Trustees and Advisors.
It is hard to imagine that almost 20 years have
passed since our Museum opened. HMH has
impacted so vitally the 2 million students
and adults who have entered its doors.
That our world continues to be challenged
by antisemitism, racism and terrorism is a
stimulus that reinforces our zeal to achieve
our mission. From life-changing programs
such as “All Behaviors Count,” where
students learn the dangers of bullying, to
workshops such as The Warren Fellowship,
Spector-Warren Fellowship and Max M.
Kaplan Summer Institute, where current and
future teachers learn methods to impart the
vital lessons of the Holocaust, HMH is at the
forefront of Holocaust education. Our
Museum is one of only four accredited
museums in Houston and one of only four
percent of museums in the country that carry
this distinction.
Our “Guardian of the Human Spirit” luncheon
on Nov. 2, honoring Velva G. and H. Fred
Levine and featuring New York Times columnist
and best-selling author David Brooks, was
a tremendous success, with almost 1,100
attendees. Our upcoming 20th anniversary
highlights include the opening of “The
Butterfly Project,” to be exhibited in the
Galleria and Neiman Marcus in March 2016,
accompanied by a coffee-table book picturing
many of the 1.5 million butterflies handmade
by students around the country and abroad
to remember the 1.5 million children who
perished. We also look forward to our
anniversary celebration and presentation of
the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage
Award in the spring.
We are ever grateful to our survivors who inspire
us daily to continue our urgent mission. Sadly,
we must prepare ourselves for a day when they
are no longer with us and we must become the
standard-bearers of their vital message.
The Board also is thrilled to be in the planning
stages of a major expansion of our campus
which will allow us more exhibition space to
teach not only the lessons of the Holocaust
but also information about other genocides
and human rights as well as make a clear call
to action to challenge visitors to make the
right moral choices in life.
I, the Board and the staff thank you for your
generous support of Holocaust Museum
Houston.
Anticipating Our 20th Year
Gail Klein