Retired business executive Hylton Jonas has been named chairman of the board of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance.
A board member since 2005, Hylton has a personal involvement in the devastation of the Holocaust. The family of his wife, Veronique, were victims of this tragic period in modern history. Her parents, many aunts and uncles were deported from their homes on the Island of Rhodes and imprisoned in 1944 at Auschwitz, where they died. In honor of the 1,407 Jews who were deported from the Island of Rhodes and died, the Jonas’s erected a memorial on the island listing the names of each victim.
According to outgoing board chairman Thomas Halsey, “Hylton is logically the next person to lead the DHM/CET. He shares a passion for the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance’s mission, and brings the business and financial expertise necessary to advance our mission.”
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