Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her story. Ruth and her sister Lea lived in Sinsheim, Germany when Hitler came to power. The family was deported to the Gurs interment camp in 1940, and their mother was faced with a very difficult decision: to let a Jewish philanthropic organization called Oeuvres de […]
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s younger sister Elizabeth Bellak who survived the Holocaust and has preserved Renia’s legacy of beauty and love. This program is available in person (included in […]
Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians. Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special evening with magician Richard Hatch. He will share with us the story of the German Jewish amateur magician and magic historian Guenther Dammann and the […]
In addition to his evening lecture, Richard Hatch will perform a magic show for families during Spring Break. Although Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, he finds it easier to break the laws of nature than to discover them. A childhood interest in magic became a lifelong obsession, and he […]
Explore the Museum's galleries and featured exhibitions, Houston Survivor Series: Liberation and Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920, at no charge with free admission presented by The Village of River Oaks.
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
Join the Houston Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, together with Holocaust Museum Houston, for an innovative program for children ages 7-13. Fania’s Heart, written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Richard Rudnicki, tells the true story of the creation of a heart-shaped book in Auschwitz and the women who risked their lives to create it. This inspiring story […]
Please join us at the exhibition opening reception of Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920. This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, January 23. Due to inclement weather, it has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 29. Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 sheds light on a difficult time in history that included both the Mexican […]