Curated in-house by our Collections and Exhibitions team, this exhibit will feature Houston-area Holocaust Survivors in the fifth installment of our Houston Survivor Series. Observing the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of most concentration camps across Europe, this installment will focus on local survivors who experienced liberation and went on to become an integral […]

Join us for a Latino-Jewish cross cultural holiday celebration with light bites, cocktails, and dessert.

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.

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]