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UH Graduate Curates Holocaust Exhibit
Posted: March 2, 2006
Jenna Berger, who received her M.A. Public History from the University of Houston in Fall 2005, is the guest curator for the exhibit, Survivors Journeys, which opens at the Holocaust Museum Houston on March 5, 2006 and runs through September 17, 2006. The opening reception will be in the Mincberg Gallery of the Museum on March 4 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Ms. Berger currently works in the UH Center for Public History as the managing editor of The Houston Review of History and Culture and as the Associate Director of the Oral History of Houston project.
Survivors Journeys recounts an important chapter in the city s recent past. The successes of survivors who moved to Houston shortly after liberation will be illustrated through artifacts and photographs on loan from the survivors and their families. Survivors' Journeys will include family photographs and artifacts chronicling the lives of several Houston survivors, including Edith and Josef Mincberg; Bill Orlin; Al Marks; Leon Cooper; Wolf Finkelman; Glenn Bermann; Bill Morgan; Inge-Ruth Fletcher; Jacob and Rose Eisenstein; Stefi Altman; Ruth Brown; Morris and Linda Penn; Louise and Rubin Joskowitz; Sigmund, Sol, and Max Jucker; Walter Kase; Ruth Steinfeld; Lea Weems; Helen Colin; Charles Kurt and many others. These individuals survived tragic experiences early in their lives -- losing loved ones, being forced to hide their identities, suffering through concentration camps and death camps, and then waiting in displaced persons camps for the chance at a new life. Yet, those who survived and came to America to begin anew came with a desire to put the past behind them and make up for the lost years of their lives. Their stories will be an inspirational part of the Museum's 10th anniversary celebration.
For more information on the Holocaust Museum Houston, please visit http://www.hmh.org/. For more information on the UH Center for Public History, please visit http://vi.uh.edu/public_history/center_for_public_history.html.
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