In partnership with Gulf Coast Reads, Holocaust Museum Houston is celebrating libraries and the right to read throughout the month of October. Join us for a free screening of, “The Book Thief.” Based on Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel, this film shares the magic of reading with audiences through the story of Liesel Meminger, a young […]
1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TX1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TXEmma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Emma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the documentary, “A Strike and An Uprising! (in Texas),” based in the telling of two events: the San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and […]
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) and the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) present “How Identity Ages,” a panel discussion on the impact of aging on our identity, personal agency, and mental health, as part of HGO’s Seeking the Human Spirit and inspired by the opera Saul. This six-year, multi-disciplinary initiative, under the auspices of HGOco, explores universal […]
This month Boniuk Library’s Book Club is joining hundreds of readers across the Gulf Coast Region in reading, discussing, and attending special events around this year’s Gulf Coast Reads pick: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean. Equal parts true crime and love-letter to libraries, “The Library Book” examines the Los Angeles Public Library fire. Susan […]
This month Boniuk Library’s Book Club is joining hundreds of readers across the Gulf Coast Region in reading, discussing, and attending special events around this year’s Gulf Coast Reads pick: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean. Equal parts true crime and love-letter to libraries, “The Library Book” examines the Los Angeles Public Library fire. Susan […]
oin us for a community art workshop with artist Theresa Escobedo. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to make sugar skulls, paper flowers and create papel picado in honor of Día de los Muertos. The sugar skulls, flowers, and papel picado created in this workshop will also be included in the community ofrenda […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Director of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso and an Associate Professor in History, as she explores the ethical and historical issues associated with curating an art exhibit created by anonymous migrant youth held in detention. […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is teaming up with Houston Chamber Choir to present Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank, a groundbreaking musical work by British composer James Whitbourn. Hailed as a masterpiece, this work shines new light on a story of the triumph of the human heart over evil. Annelies signals the inaugural production for The […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is teaming up with Houston Chamber Choir to present Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank, a groundbreaking musical work by British composer James Whitbourn. Hailed as a masterpiece, this work shines new light on a story of the triumph of the human heart over evil. Annelies signals the inaugural production for The […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is teaming up with Houston Chamber Choir to present Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank, a groundbreaking musical work by British composer James Whitbourn. Hailed as a masterpiece, this work shines new light on a story of the triumph of the human heart over evil. Annelies signals the inaugural production for The […]