Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a film screening of Sh’ma: A Story of Survival, a moving and innovative dance film by Suki John, chronicles the journey of the director’s mother from school days to deportation, concentration camp to liberation, and finally immigration to the U.S. Sh’ma features a remarkable ensemble of 15 virtuoso performers, a haunting original score, […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for our screening of the Noa Aharoni film, Sabotage. January 1945, less than two weeks before the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp evacuation, four forced laborer women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, and Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage tells the dramatic unknown story of the women’s […]
This program is designed to enhance teachers’ knowledge, capacity, and confidence to teach about the Holocaust. Educators are introduced to pedagogical principles and explore classroom lessons, visual history testimonies and other resources that examine aspects of the history and its continued relevance today. Topics will include: pre-war Jewish life, antisemitism, escalation of hate, the ghettos, […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture on contemporary antisemitism from one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject. Dr. Dave Rich has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community, and has advised the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, football clubs, political […]
