Exhibit Opening Reception

Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance

6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Talk

Join us at the Dallas Holocaust Museum on Thursday, February 15 for the opening of our latest special exhibit on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II featuring remarks from Tom Ikeda, Executive Director of Densho.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. The attack led to insecurity and distrust among U.S. citizens, and Japanese Americans were viewed as threats to American security. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed American citizens and residents of Japanese descent to be interned. Between 110,000 and 120,000 people were forcibly relocated to ten internment camps on the West Coast and in the Midwest.

Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams is an exhibit of photographs taken by famed Western landscape photographer Ansel Adams at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California between 1943 and 1944. His photographs remind us of a time when American citizens and residents were denied their freedoms and rights due to their ancestry.

Adams was invited by Ralph Merritt, Manzanar’s director, to photograph camp internees in 1943. Adams captured their daily life as they strived to establish a home near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The series shows Japanese American perseverance despite losing their homes, property, and civil rights.

Adams protested this incarceration through his book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans. Published in 1944, the book was criticized for being unpatriotic.

Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams will be on display at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance from February 15, 2018—August 14, 2018.

This exhibition was organized by Photographic Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

The exhibit will run through August 14, 2018. The entry fee is included in the price of admission.

In Memory of Shizuo Tsujihara.

$5 General Admission. FREE for Museum Members. RSVP required through Eventbrite.

Presenting Sponsor: ORIX Americas Myauchi Foundation

Exhibition Sponsors: The Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation and Orchid Giving Circle Fund at Dallas Women’s Foundation

Community Partners: Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Japanese Association, Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, and Plano AsiaFest

For more information, visit www.DallasHolocaustMuseum.org. 

Upstander Speaker Series:

Dr. Samantha Nutt

Medical Doctor, Humanitarian, Founder of War Child

Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at Communities Foundation of Texas

In 1995, as a recent medical school graduate, Dr. Samantha Nutt volunteered with UNICEF in Baidoa, Somalia, alias the “City of Death.” War-related famine and disease ravaged Baidoa killing 300,000 people in the early 1990s. The streets were filled with the bodies of the dead, and the local orphanage lost ten to fifteen children a day to starvation.

Impassioned and emboldened by what she witnessed there, Dr. Nutt began to advocate for children’s and women’s rights in war zones around the world. In 1999, she founded the international humanitarian organization War Child (North America—Canada and US). The organization looks at the long-term challenges of war and helps children and their families survive the trauma of armed conflict and rebuild their lives. War Child also works to improve women’s and children’s access to education, justice, and opportunity while reducing poverty through skills training programs.

A leading authority on war, current affairs, and international policy as they relate to children, Dr. Nutt is a fearless and respected humanitarian. Her critically-acclaimed debut book, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid (2011), combines original research with personal stories that span her career of hands-on care for children and families in crisis regions. She is currently working on a second book.

Dr. Nutt holds an M.D. from McMaster University, is a staff physician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011, named by the Globe and Mail as one of “Canada’s Top 40 under 40,” and chosen by Time Magazine as one of “Canada’s Five Leading Activists.”

Dr. Nutt’s passion for children’s and women’s rights and expertise on international aid are why we celebrate her as part of our 2017 Upstander Speaker Series.

Dr. Nutt will speak on Thursday, November 9, 2017 at Communities Foundation of Texas, 5500 Caruth Haven Lane, Dallas, TX 75225. Tickets available through Eventbrite. $10 General Admission. FREE for Members. Program begins at 5:30 p.m.

Sponsored By: The Elliott and Patty Garsek Charitable Fund and IMA | Waldman

Supported By: The Dallas Morning News

For more information, visit www.DallasHolocaustMuseum.org.

On September 7, 2017, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance presents the special gallery exhibit, Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII.

The special gallery exhibit begins in the 1920s with segregation and discrimination directed at African Americans. In the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation legislation under the guise of the concept “separate but equal.” This ruling, coupled with the Jim Crow laws that restricted the civil liberties of African Americans in every part of society, including the military, halted the forward momentum created by the abolition of slavery and the addition of the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

At the outbreak of World War II, thousands of African Americans rushed to enlist. They were determined to fight to preserve the freedom denied to them. This exhibit tells their story.

Executive Order 8802, signed by President Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, prohibited racial discrimination in defense industries or government, thereby allowing African Americans to join the war effort. However, distrusted by the military, African Americans were segregated and often relegated to non-combat roles.

After the presidential decree, the Army Air Corps trained a limited number of black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama. The famous Tuskegee Airmen and their successful war efforts served as a symbol of African-American participation in World War II.

Over 1 million African-American men and women served in the Armed Forces during the war, including several thousand who saw combat. However, no African Americans received the Medal of Honor during World War II.

By the end of the war little progress had been made in ending racial discrimination in the United States. The resultant collective frustration and yearning for greater opportunities helped pave the way for the post-war Civil Rights Movement.

Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII highlights the achievements and struggles of African Americans during World War II both abroad and at home and explores how the war served as a catalyst for African Americans seeking social change and equal rights.

Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII was produced by The National World War II Museum. All rights reserved.

The exhibit will run through January 26, 2018. The entry fee is included in the price of admission.

Join us at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, on Thursday, September 7 for the opening reception for Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII.

Exhibit Opening Reception Guest Speakers:

- Mrs. Erma Bonner-Platte, widow of Tuskegee Airmen instructor Captain Claude R. Platte

- Flight Officer Robert T. McDaniel, former Tuskegee Airman

- Dr. J. Todd Moye, History Professor at UNT

Free. RSVP required through Eventbrite.

National Touring Sponsors: Abbot Downing, Wells Fargo

Exhibit Sponsors: Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, Fox Rothschild, LLP, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs

Community Partners: African American Museum, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Dallas Civil Rights Museum, Holy Cross Catholic Church

For more information, visit www.DallasHolocaustMuseum.org. 

During the month of June, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is celebrating millennials by offering them admission for a donation of any amount. They can to pay $10.00 or 10 cents! All donations received during the month will support the Museum Experience Fund. The Museum established the Museum Experience Fund in 2013 to pay for admission and transportation costs of low-income students from surrounding areas in fifth through 12th grade. The fund also helps pay for curriculum support for teachers from economically disadvantaged or Title I schools.

As part of Millennial Month, the Museum will host three Millennials-Only evening events, Millennial Nights, on June 13, 20, and 27 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Millennials can enjoy food, beverages, live music, and docent-led tours of our core exhibit and special gallery exhibit, Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg - John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens. Raffle prize drawings will take place at each event.

Admission is FREE. RSVP at Eventbrite. Follow us on social media to learn more about the events! Dallas Holocaust Museum: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest.

Special thanks to our 2017 Millennial Month sponsors: Tutta’s, P.F. Chang’s, Pegasus City Brewery, Peticolas Brewing Company, Whisk Crepes Café, Sprinkles, Painting with a Twist, Shakespeare Dallas, El Fenix, Truck Yard Dallas, and Trader Joe’s

Live Music Performed By: Tyler Brown, Droo, and Joey & Mitch

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Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg
John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens
February 16 - August 3, 2017

The Nuremberg Trials in 1945 used an unprecedented form of evidence—film of the war and the liberation of concentration camps. The raw footage compiled into a documentary titled Nazi Concentration Camps, became crucial evidence, presenting the crimes the
Nazis committed in an unflinching and authentic format to the court.

The exhibit, opening February 16, 2017, features the work of three filmmakers: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens. It explores the filmmakers’ experiences during and after World War II, the footage they captured of Nazi atrocities, and the impact the war had on their careers.

John Ford, director of films such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man, commanded the Field Photographic Branch and made propaganda films for the U.S. Navy Department. He won back-to-back Academy Awards during this time for his documentaries, The Battle of Midway and December 7th.

George Stevens, known before the war for light-hearted musicals featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II and headed a film unit under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and horrific scenes of the infamous Dachau concentration camp. Following the war, Stevens’ films gravitated toward more serious subjects. He went on to direct the Academy-Award winning films Shane, Giant, and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Samuel Fuller served as a soldier in the 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed “The Big Red One.” He captured footage of the liberation of Falkenau, a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, under the orders of his captain with a camera Fuller’s mother sent him. After the war, Fuller directed many films including The Big Red One, based on his wartime experiences.

In 1945, Ford created a documentary of the war incorporating Stevens’ images of Dachau. The film, shown first to American audiences, was evidence of Nazi crimes at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Ford also documented the Nuremberg Trials.

The exhibition contains film and photographs of World War II as well as clips from the filmmakers’ pre-war careers.

The exhibition, curated by historian and film director Christian Delage, was designed, created, and distributed by the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.

This presentation was made possible through the support of the Consulate General of France in Houston, the Embassy of France in the United States, and SNCF.

This presentation is sponsored by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, Studio Movie Grill, the Consulate General of France in Houston, the Embassy of France in the United States, and SNCF, and is on view at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance February 16—August 3, 2017.

Community Sponsors: VideoFest, Dallas Jewish Film Festival, Dallas Black Film Festival, 3 Stars Jewish Cinema