The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. HMH will commemorate and honor the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust with free admission Sunday, January 26.
AJC Houston and Holocaust Museum Houston invite you to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations Ukrainian Klymentiy Sheptytsky, an archimandrite of the Order of Studite monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and heromartyr, who worked to rescue Jews during the Holocaust by harboring them in Studite monasteries and organizing […]
Program ChairsMitzi Shure and Jerry WischeEllen and Dan Trachtenberg Join us to hear Amir Tibon’s gripping true story of how he and his family were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023, by Tibon’s own father, a retired IDF general. Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, […]
Please join us at the exhibition opening reception of Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920. This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, January 23. Due to inclement weather, it has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 29. Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 sheds light on a difficult time in history that included both the Mexican […]
Join the Houston Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, together with Holocaust Museum Houston, for an innovative program for children ages 7-13. Fania’s Heart, written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Richard Rudnicki, tells the true story of the creation of a heart-shaped book in Auschwitz and the women who risked their lives to create it. This inspiring story […]
American flutist and sociomusicologist Dr. Christine Beard will examine the role music played during the Holocaust. This poignant and informative lecture-recital explores how music served as a form of resistance and allowed prisoners to temporarily “escape” their inhumane circumstances, how the Nazis used music to inflict mental and emotional torture, and what music was banned […]
Celebrate Black History Month at the Museum as the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Willie Lee Gay H-Town Chapter explores the invaluable records for researching formerly enslaved and free persons of color in the immediate post-Civil War period. Session 1: “In Their Own Words”This presentation by Diane L. Richard, MEng & MBA, a professional genealogical researcher, […]
In early 1930’s Soviet Ukraine, the regime of Josef Stalin ran a genocidal campaign of starvation against the rural peasant class. With the intention to both collectivize Ukraine’s rich agricultural industry, as well as wipe out the Kulak class, food was withheld from millions of civilians in the countryside, leading to one of the worst, […]
Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special evening with magician Richard Hatch. He will share with us the story of the German Jewish amateur magician and magic historian Guenther Dammann and the 1933 book he wrote in Berlin about Jewish magicians. Hatch will intertwine magic that might have […]
The Mischlinge Exposé weaves a multimedia tapestry around a little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge (a derogatory Nazi term for those neither fully Jewish nor fully Aryan). The program interweaves video and audio testimony from American pianist Carolyn Enger’s godmother and her father (both labeled Mischling, Grade A by the Nazis) with the music of composers […]
