The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center

The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center is available to businesses, civic and nonprofit organizations that are interested in using the Museum for an upcoming event.

The EPHM Book Club will have its first discussion of 2012 with the book "Day after Night" by Anita Diamant at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. The moderator will be UTEP's Dr. Ezra Cappell. The theme for the EPHM Book Club in 2012 is "Life after the Holocaust."

Marian Manor Elementary School is collection six million pennies -- one for every Jewish victim of the Holocaust. At the end of the academic year, the school will donate the pennies to the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center. The Museum is helping in the collection process. Bring your pennies to the Museum, 715 N. Oregon.

The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center will present the exhibit "A Child Survivor's Legacy" by first-time artist and Holocaust survivor Maria Jutasi Coleman Feb. 7 through March 30. Jutasi Coleman was a child in Hungary when the Nazi's occupied the country. Though she and her mother survived by escaping from a ghetto, most of her family was murdered in Auschwitz.

Members of the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center elected the 2012 Officers and Board of Directors at the Annual Memeber's Meeting on Jan. 26.