November 9, 2018 marked the 80th anniversary of the November Pogrom known as Kristallnacht. During the November Pogrom, Nazi thugs went through the streets of Germany and, in plain view, set synagogues on fire, smashed the window fronts of Jewish businesses, attacked Jewish people and vandalized their apartments. Houston Holocaust survivor, Ruth Steinfeld experienced the […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture by Dr. Jesus Jesse Esparza in which he highlights the experience of several WWII Latino soldiers from the Houston area who contributed to the Allied victory and who played a role also in ending one of the most heinous and atrocious crimes against humanity, the Holocaust. When the […]
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world with the help of renowned human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and […]
Join HMH for an evening with Dr. Christopher Carmona in the first lecture of the Spring 2018 Lecture Series, Intergenerational Trauma & Memory: History Carried Through Generations, in correlation with the South Texas Human Rights Art Exhibition and Holocaust Museum Houston's Latino Initiatives Advisory Committee (LIAC). Dr. Carmona is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing […]
Join Children At Risk and United Against Human Trafficking at Holocaust Museum Houston for a viewing of the Exhibit Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 followed by a panel discussion on the history of Labor trafficking in the U.S. and efforts to end this crime. Admission is free and open to the public, but registration […]
Please join Holocaust Museum Houston for a night of discussion featuring a diverse panel of leaders representing the Anti-Defamation League, American Civil Liberties Union, Emerge-USA Houston, Equality Texas, Holocaust Museum Houston, the Japanese American Citizens League--Houston Chapter, League of United Latin American Citizens and the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People. Drawing on […]
Known as The Salad Bowl of the World, Californias Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. Professor Flores will discuss the history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez. She […]
Dolores Huerta addressing an ecstatic audience in Sacramento after the Delano grape march. As they marched, she would call out to the people they passed to inspire them to join their movement. John Kouns, 1966. Courtesy of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the opening […]
This film version of the play, “The Soap Myth,” is an interesting story that provokes discussion. More than a half-century after World War II at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story. Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and […]