“For Sama” is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter as well as a filmmaker's self-portrait, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets […]
Dolores Huerta leads supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in an unidentified march, early 1970s.Unidentified photographer. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen, invites you to an exclusive tour of the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston. The tour will […]
ADL Walk Against Hate events have successfully united communities in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Diego since 2010. On Sunday, November 17th, 2019, Houston will celebrate our inaugural Walk Against Hate and bring the entire community together to promote diversity and celebrate the values of respect and inclusion. WHY WE WALK: We Defend Civil Rights. […]
Holocaust Museum Houston, together with Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance and DACAMERA, presents The Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a free performance by pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg with DACAMERA Young Artists. The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion, Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Music as Memory, featuring Rothenberg in discussion with Houston […]
Explore your family’s culinary history with Boniuk Library Book Club. On November 7, Boniuk Library book club is coming together for a book discussion and recipe swap, in honor of this month’s book “The Cooking Gene,” by Michael Twitty. In this illuminating memoir, culinary historian Michael Twitty traces his family history through the recipes and […]
Explore your family’s culinary history with Boniuk Library Book Club. On November 7, Boniuk Library book club is coming together for a book discussion and recipe swap, in honor of this month’s book “The Cooking Gene,” by Michael Twitty. In this illuminating memoir, culinary historian Michael Twitty traces his family history through the recipes and […]
Photo: A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate, 1963 © Danny Lyon, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ Photographer Danny Lyon will discuss his exhibition, Danny Lyon: […]
Authors Jack Fairweather and Bev Saltzman Lewyn will discuss their respective books. Fairweather’s The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz tells the incredible true story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the […]
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 […]