This "3 Questions With" is a sponsored interview in partnership with the Holocaust Museum Houston.
Trevor Boyd, the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Holocaust Museum Houston sat down with the Houston team to discuss their newest exhibition, Unveiled from the Vault.
Can you give us a sense of what this exhibit is about and how it came together?
It's personal, it's about what's been entrusted to us is the memories of survivors, of victims, and of families of the Holocaust and the Nazi era. Part of that trust is to tell these stories. And so I proposed this exhibition and started working on it, started going through the collections, and then also had the fortunate chance to meet with people from Rice University's South Texas Jewish archives. And so we will actually be incorporating some of their pieces as well.
When you started going through the collections, what was it like going through them? Did you find anything that really surprised you along the way?
There were surprises because even though I kind of knew the range of what I was looking for, this collection is more full than I thought. For example, we have some Western Union telegrams from a prisoner of war who we have the telegrams to his parents. So you get this whole kind of trajectory of a story.
How do you balance those goals of the personal stories and the historical record?
It's a balance that is essential, and especially to our mission. We are a museum that is about human history, but it's about the horrors and the beauty. It's both.
Check out hmh.org/events to RSVP for tickets to the free opening of the exhibition Unveiled from the Vault on July 24th.
