Genealogy Workshop | Echoes of Freedom: “In Their Own Words”

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

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, […]

Film Screening | Black Raven

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

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, […]

Free Admission presented by The Villages of River Oaks

Holocaust Museum Houston

Explore the Museum's galleries and featured exhibitions, Houston Survivor Series: Liberation and Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920, at no charge with free admission presented by The Villages of River Oaks.

Guenther Dammann and the Book Almost Lost to History: The Lives of Jewish Magicians

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians. Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 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 […]

Mischlinge Exposé

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

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 […]

Lunch & Learn | Auschwitz Expert Dr. Gideon Greif

Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom

This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Lunch will be served for those that register. Professor Gideon Greif is an Israeli historian, and educator. He is Chief Historian and Researcher at the "Shem Olam" Institute for Education, Documentation and Research on Faith and the Holocaust, Israel, Chief Historian and […]

Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pmWednesday, April 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating […]