Did You Know . . . ? . . . that To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Price winning novel, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 languages; . . . that Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Atticus Finch in Mockingbird earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe, […]
Dear Members and Friends of Houston-Leipzig, This is the last call for the Leipzig trip in October 2014. It is time to make final decisions about the October trip to Leipzig to participate in the celebrations of the 25 Years of the Peaceful Revolution. Opposition groups in Leipzig had begun organizing Peace Prayers since 1982. […]
It is now time to make concrete plans to be in Leipzig on October 9, 2014, to participate in the 25th anniversary celebrations of the peaceful end of the confrontation between 70,000 demonstrators carrying nothing but candles, and the secret police in full military combat gear. October 9, 1989, was the decisive Monday. Surgeons had […]
Leipzig, October 8, 2013. As part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Staedtepartnerschaft Leipzig-Houston in 2013, the Leipzig association is presenting an exhibition of NASA Imagery entitled “Across all Borders – Über die Grenzen Hinaus.” The exhibit is in cooperation with the International Space Education Institute and will take place in the […]
Today we remember those who gave their lives for their country. Reach out to the family of a fallen soldier, take time to comfort a child who lost a father or mother in the military, take time to help with a wounded-warrior or support-our-troops project, take time to pay respects to a veteran. In observance […]
Sunday, 13th August 1961, shortly after midnight. East German police disrupt the city train and underground connections. Street surfaces are ripped up, barbed wire barriers erected. The Soviet sector border in Berlin is sealed off from the western districts.
Houston PBS – Channel 8 will show the second part of the two-hour documentary on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at 9:00 p.m. After the initial days of celebration following the opening of the Wall, the fate of the two Germanys hung in the balance. Would a new chapter of instability doom Gorbachev’s era of reform […]
On Monday, August 8, 2011, at 9:00 p.m., Houston PBS – Channel 8 – will show the first part of the two-hour documentary that first premiered in June 2010. The most memorable symbol of the revolution that swept across Europe two decades ago is the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall. Soon after, East […]
