Address: 5410 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-942-8000
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Website: https://hmh.org/
Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Kelly Zuniga, Ed.D., CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Tamara Savage, Managing Director/Director of Public Programs
Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D. HMH Holocaust & Genocide Education Endowed Chair
Connie Boyd, Director of Development
Kristin Albers Lamm, Chief Financial Officer
Carol Manley, Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions/Registrar
Robin Cavanaugh, Chief Marketing Officer
Madelyn Strubelt, Director of Visitor and Volunteer Services
Margaret Sasaki, Director of Grants and Research
Jenna Norris, Librarian
Wendy Warren, Director of Education
Year Established: 1996
Staff: Salaried - 32; Volunteer - 300
Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://hmh.org/visit/
Type of Organization or Mission: Museum and Education Center Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the six million Jews and other innocent victims, and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.
Services: Permanent and changing exhibits; Public programs and lectures; Library (research and member lending); Audio-visual collection; On-line survivor testimonies; Speakers? bureau; Docent-led museum tours; Audio headset tours; Museum store; Online bookstore; Yom Hashoah commemoration; Docent training program; Survivor memory project; Oral history project; Second Generation Speakers' bureau/Through Their Eyes
Publications: Print and e-newsletters; News for Educators, e-newsletter; Curriculum and study guides for exhibits; Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust; There is No Why Here; Plowing Stones: Poems of the Holocaust (English and Spanish); Where is my Family? (video) / DVD and curriculum guide; Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan; The Album: Shadow of Memory; When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust; Arando Priedras: Poemas del Holocausto; How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia, Extermination
Education Institutes: Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers (in conjunction with Syracuse University); Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers; Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators
Education Programs and Services: K-16 student programs; Teacher resources; Content-specific one-day workshops (in museum, schools, community and conference settings); Digital curriculum trunks (i-Pad based); Juvenile justice education; Law enforcement and SLEASociety (in cooperation with the Houston Police Department and the Anti-Defamation league); Adult education programs; Yom Hashoah scholarship contest; Educator in Motion- Bilingual school and community outreach program; Engines of Change- Student ambassador program for high school students
