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Holocaust Museum Houston
Book Discussion: “The Train to Crystal City” by Jan Jarboe Russell
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016
06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
US/Central
This October, The Boniuk Library teams up with Gulf Coast Reads to present a discussion of “The Train to Crystal City” by Jan Jarboe Russell. Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, this dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.
About the Artist Talk
Gulf Coast Reads is an annual regional reading initiative focused on promoting the simultaneous reading or listening to a selected title by those living along the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The reading initiative’s goal is to encourage our communities to read the same title during the month of October in order to encourage readers to come together in discussions about it with neighbors, co-workers, friends and their families, as well as in classrooms and in libraries throughout the region.
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HOURS & ADMISSION
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Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, noon - 5:00 pm
The Museum is closed Mondays, except for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day. - This event is free. Registration is limited to 12 participants, but the discussion may be offered on a second date. If registration is full, call 713-942-8000, ext. 110 or email [email protected] to add your name to an interest list.
Directions & Parking
- Paid Parking
- Paid parking is available in the parking lot next to the Museum on the corner of Binz and Caroline St.
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