Museum mission reflected in myriad events (continued from previous page) In January, the museum was a co-sponsor of a screening at the JCC of the film 999 : The Forgotten Girls , a documentary about nearly 1,000 Slovak Jewish women who were deported to Auschwitz. NMHIM also supported Voices of Shekhinah: Four lluminations , an opera about the life of four Jewish women, an event that also was hosted by HaMakom and Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe. In February, NMHIM along with the JCC and the Black Cham- ber of Commerce of New Mexico co-sponsored the showing of the film Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round , about the efforts of the Black and Jewish communities of Maryland and Washington DC to desegregate Glen Echo Amusement Park. As part of the 2025 program series, the NM Japanese American Citizens League presented the powerful documentary Community in Conflict: The Legacy of the Santa Fe Internment Camp about the last- ing trauma of the imprisonment of Japanese and Japanese- Americans during World War II. In April, NMHIM participated in the annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration at Congregation Albert. We wrapped up the 2024-2025 speaker series in the spring with talks by Dr. Mary Jiron-Belgarde in April and Julie Kohner in May. In June, NMHIM commemorated Pride Month by commission- ing a mural for the front window by local artist Jude Glazner. Stop by the museum to see this colorful, meaningful artwork in person! Staff took 400 Years of African American Upstanders on the road once again to table at the exciting Juneteenth event hosted by the Black Chamber of Commerce. As part of its North American Holocaust Museum Tour, The Jewish Motorcycle Association presented NMHIM with an art piece titled “The Circle of Chai.” Members of the local chapter, the Kosher Hogs of New Mexico, attended a reception in the museum. In addition, we have been ramping up our social media presence with This Day in History series. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see these posts and to stay up to date with our pro- ductive and busy schedule.
Andy Holten, once was a hidden child during the Holocaust, talks with a furry four-footed friend at Catopia Cat Café where he read The Cat Who Lived With Anne Frank to a pleased audience.
Artist Jude Glazner ’ s tribute to New Mexico Pride painted in the museum ’ s front window.
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