Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a memorable night of social justice, poetry, and art, featuring author Leslie Contreras Schwartz. Interweaving readings from her new book, "Who Speaks for Us Here," with discussion, Contreras Schwartz will captivate audiences with an exploration of poetry and art as tools for nonviolent resistance and for healing. Newly released from […]
In 1996, The Butterfly, a poem written by Pavel Friedmann in the Terezin Concentration Camp, inspired Museum staff and supporters to create the Butterfly Project, facilitating a connection between a new generation of children with the children who perished in World War II. During this virtual workshop, we will guide you and your child through […]
Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred, hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach. The goal of the Creating Possibility […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) and the Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society (GHJGS) for a three-part series covering research and writing techniques to help craft the story of you. Sessions will cover research methods; source documents; regional history; and turning all that information into a shareable story. Create an engaging narrative that you can share […]
Holocaust Museum Houstons young professional group, NEXTGen, invites you to Downward Dog for a Cause at Dogwood Houston. Join us as instructors from YogaWorks leads us through a fun yoga class open to all levels. NEXTGen will provide complimentary water, but please dont forget your yoga mat and towel. Following the class, brunch and drink […]
Russian-born poet Avraham Sutzkever is, by many accounts, the greatest Yiddish writer of modern times. He wrote with wit, passion, and vitality through the darkness of the Holocaust, and led the Paper Brigade, an underground resistance group that hid a cache of Jewish cultural items to protect them from destruction at the hands of the […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her testimony. 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 […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin shares his testimony. Between 1939 and 1945, Orlin and his family lived on the run. The eldest son of Sender and Sonia Orlinski, he was seven years old when German troops invaded Poland and occupied his hometown of Brok. The Jewish residents were forcibly marched to […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as survivor Chaja Verveer shares her testimony. Chaja was born in Maarsbergen, Holland in 1941, after Germany had occupied the country. When she was just one year old, Chaja and her family went into hiding, splitting up because they were too many to stay in one place. Chaja ended up in […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as local music trio Left On Lockwood takes the stage as the debut performance in the new Eric Alexander Amphitheater. A mixture of folk, blues and soul, band members include guitarist and songwriter Rivan Bennevendo, lead vocalist Brandi Brown and percussionist Brian Henry. This program is free with Museum admission.