The Rescue Film - Concerto
2025-01-15 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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The Lt. David L. Silverman Latin American Institute’s evening program will feature a special film screening and conversation around Latin American rescue during the Holocaust. The Rescue Film-Concerto is a performative film experience that combines a 60-min documentary film with a live musical performance of its musical soundtrack to recount the little-known story of ‘Righteous’ Colonel José Arturo Castellanos. Castellanos collaborated with his Jewish friend to save thousands of Jewish lives during the Holocaust by issuing Salvadoran nationality certificates while working as a diplomat putting his life and family at great risk. This ground-breaking Film-Concerto concept was developed by filmmakers Alvaro and Boris Castellanos, grandsons of Colonel Castellanos, as an emotionally engaging and uplifting way to tell the story of their grandfather and as a pioneering narrative in Holocaust education and commemoration of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’. The program will feature a talk back with the filmmakers, Alvaro and Boris Castellanos.
This is a bilingual program with interpretation services available in English and Spanish.
The Silverman Latin American Institute, supported by the Lt. David L. Silverman Endowment Fund, is an international bilingual conference that brings educators from Latin America and the United States together to study the Holocaust, human rights, and social justice. Silverman Fellows are immersed in historical and pedagogical content while creating international networks that strengthen educational collaborations.
If you need assistance with registration, please call Laurie Garcia at 713-527-1611.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2025-01-20 10:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
While the Museum is closed on Mondays, our galleries will be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On this annual commemoration, we remember and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his leadership.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2025-01-26 12:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. HMH will commemorate and honor the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust with free admission Sunday, January 26.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony
2025-01-27 10:00 - 11:30 | Holocaust Museum Houston
AJC Houston and Holocaust Museum Houston invite you to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations Ukrainian Klymentiy Sheptytsky, an archimandrite of the Order of Studite monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and heromartyr, who worked to rescue Jews during the Holocaust by harboring them in Studite monasteries and organizing groups that would aid them in escaping.
The program will feature video remarks from Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the US, and Vitalii Tarasiuk, Consul General of Ukraine in Houston.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Featuring Special Guest Speaker Amir Tibon
2025-01-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Congregation Beth Yeshurun (4525 Beechnut St., Houston, TX 77096)
Program ChairsMitzi Shure and Jerry WischeEllen and Dan Trachtenberg
Join us to hear Amir Tibon’s gripping true story of how he and his family were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023, by Tibon’s own father, a retired IDF general.
Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority. From 2017-2020, Tibon was based in Washington, DC as a foreign correspondent for Haaretz, and he also has served as a senior editor for the newspaper’s English edition. He, his wife, and their two young daughters are former residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz but are currently living as internal refugees in northern Israel.
This event is open to the public and free to attend, but registration is required.

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"Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920" Exhibition Opening
2025-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery
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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 Revolution and World War I. Opening in the Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, this exhibition examines the hardships and racial violence faced by people of Mexican descent on the border between Texas and Mexico in the second decade of the 20th century. The conflict in Texas would spur the Mexican American civil rights movement and inspire a cultural renaissance along the border and beyond that can still be felt today.
Originally produced by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in collaboration with Refusing to Forget.

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Survivors & Descendants Family Program
2025-02-02 14:00 - 15:30 | Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom
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 recounts the resiliency and courage of the women who treated each other with humanity, despite the horrors inflicted upon them. Following the reading, attendees will participate in an interactive activity designed to reflect upon the themes of the book. Children are invited to attend with a parent(s) or grandparent(s). There will also be a breakout session for adults about how to talk to children about the Holocaust. The program is open to interested families, whether or not your family includes Holocaust survivors.

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Hope, Resistance, and Torture: The Role of Music During the Holocaust
2025-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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 by the SS Kultur Kamer. Featuring works for flute by composers from across Europe whose lives were tragically cut short by the Nazis’ soulless plan for genocide labeled “The Final Solution,” this program aims to serve not only as a memorial to those lost but also as a reminder that discrimination has no place in a civilized society.

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Genealogy Workshop | Echoes of Freedom: “In Their Own Words”
2025-02-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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, author, and lecturer from North Carolina, will focus on “Last Seen Ads,” the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Freedman’s Bank records.
Session 2: “Slave Narratives: Telling Their Stories In Their Own Words”Sharon Gillins, a native of Galveston, retired educator, practicing genealogist and genealogy educator will examine the historical period, function, and genealogical value of slave narratives, published and unpublished narratives, and records that are often overlooked and found in unlikely places.
These exciting educational sessions are brought to you through a partnership between the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc., Willie Lee Gay H-Town Chapter (AAHGS), Holocaust Museum Houston, and Freedmen’s Town Museums Houston.
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Check-in begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum. Attendees are invited to join us from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Photo credit: Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters, Library of Congress

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Film Screening | Black Raven
2025-02-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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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, and unfortunately overlooked, genocides of the 20th Century. Join Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston in the showing of the documentary “Black Raven,” memorializing the largely forgotten horror of the Holodomor.

Free Admission presented by The Village of River Oaks
2025-02-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
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.

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Meet and Greets for the HMH Volunteer Program
2025-03-08 - 2025-06-18 | Holocaust Museum Houston
Meet and Greets are an opportunity for prospective volunteers to visit the Museum and hear firsthand from current volunteers about their experiences with the Volunteer Program. Interested prospective volunteers can apply online and then attend a brief interview with the Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager. This is done to establish basic expectations and explain the requirements for the new volunteers, including submitting a request for a background check and agreeing to attend a New Volunteer Orientation.
Meet and Greet Schedule

Wednesday, June 18 from 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Sunday, July 6 from 2:00 pm-3:30 pm

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Spring Break Drop-In Tours
2025-03-11 - 2025-03-22 | Holocaust Museum Houston
Visitors interested in a docent-led experience can join one of the many drop-in tours throughout Spring Break.
Tours are subject to availability.
English Drop-In ToursTuesday, March 11 – Friday, March 14 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pmThursday, March 13 at 11:00 am, 2:00 pm and 3:00 pmSaturday, March 15 at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm and 2:00 pmSunday, March 16 at 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm and 2:30 pmThursday, March 20 at 3:00 pmSaturday, March 22 at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm and 2:00 pmSunday, March 23 at 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm and 2:30 pm
Spanish Drop-In ToursTuesday, March 11 at 1:00 pmWednesday, March 12 at 2:00 pmThursday, March 20 at 1:00 pmSaturday, March 22 at noon and 1:45 pm

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Richard Hatch Magic Show
2025-03-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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 has been a full-time professional “deceptionist” since 1983. Richard honed his craft entertaining guests as one of the house magicians at Houston’s Magic Island Nightclub before devoting himself exclusively to private and corporate work.
This program is included in Museum general admission.

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Guenther Dammann and the Book Almost Lost to History: The Lives of Jewish Magicians
2025-03-11 17:30 - 20:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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 1933 book he wrote in Berlin about Jewish magicians. Hatch will intertwine magic that might have been performed by Dammann and these great Jewish magicians into his presentation on the fascinating although unfortunately tragic tale of Guenther Dammann.
Last year, the New York Times devoted 3 pages of their Arts & Leisure section to Hatch’s work translating this book by Guenther Dammann about the wonderful contributions of Jewish magicians to the art form.
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 has been a full-time professional “deceptionist” since 1983. Richard honed his craft entertaining guests as one of the house magicians at Houston’s Magic Island Nightclub before devoting himself exclusively to private and corporate work.
In 2010 he and his wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura Hatch, moved to his hometown of Logan, Utah where they opened the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music. Richard Hatch is now dedicating himself to preserving the history of this German Jewish author murdered in the Holocaust.
There are so many Holocaust stories…but this is one you will not want to miss.

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Renia’s Diary
2025-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 | In-person at HMH and on Zoom
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 Museum general admission) and virtually.

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Holocaust Survivor Talk featuring Ruth Steinfeld
2025-03-13 14:30 - 15:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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 Secours aux Enfants (OSE) take her daughters to safety, or keep them with her. Ruth and her sister’s lives were forever altered after that moment.
This program is include in free Museum admission.

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Holocaust Survivor Talk featuring Bill Orlin
2025-03-20 14:30 - 15:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
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 Ostrow Mazowiecki, about 50 miles northwest of Warsaw.
The forced march, although terrifying at the time, may have saved the family’s lives. Once Orlin and his family were in Soviet-controlled Poland, they continued their eastward journey into the Soviet interior, where they remained in relative safety for the rest of WWII. When Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941 the family ran, as Orlin recalls. Although the family was together, life was tremendously difficult, suffering from hunger and malnutrition for the next several years.
This program is include in free Museum admission.

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Mischlinge Exposé
2025-03-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
The Mischlinge Exposé weaves a multimedia tapestry around a little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge (a derogatory Nazi term for those neither fully Jewish nor fully Aryan). The program interweaves video and audio testimony from American pianist Carolyn Enger’s godmother and her father (both labeled Mischling, Grade A by the Nazis) with the music of composers from the salon period who converted to Christianity in the decades before the war. Reacting to questions of identity after the war, the program vividly illustrates what it was like to be between worlds in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Through the telling of her family story, Enger’s live documentary directly addresses universally significant issues of identity and inclusion, encouraging empathy, tolerance, and engagement.
Internationally celebrated Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her exquisite lyrical playing, as well as her deeply felt interpretations. In addition to an active performance schedule on two continents, including recent performances at The National Gallery Oslo, Baruch College, Kean University and Noontime Concerts in San Francisco; Enger has enjoyed remarkable success as a recording artist. The New York Times selected her Naxos recording of intimate Ned Rorem miniatures, Piano Album I & Six Friends, as one of the newspaper’s “Best In Classical Recordings”, writing “Among the 90th–birthday tributes this year to the essential American composer Ned Rorem, this recording especially stands out,” while Gramophone declared, “Enger raises the miniatures to a higher level.” Recently the recording was “Album of the Week” on Sirius XM’s Symphony Halland was featured on their program Living American. Her latest recording Resonating Earth was released in September 2024

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Lunch & Learn | Auschwitz Expert Professor Dr. Gideon Greif
2025-03-21 12:00 - 13:30 | In person at HMH and on Zoom
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
This event is available in person or virtually via Zoom. Lunch will be served for those that register to attend in person.
Professor Dr. Gideon Greif is an Israeli historian, and educator. He is Chief Historian and Researcher at the “Shem Olam” Institute for Education, Documentation and Research on Faith and the Holocaust, Israel, Chief Historian and Researcher at the Foundation for Holocaust Education Projects in Miami, Florida and a senior Researcher and Historian at the Ono Academic College in Israel.
Greif is considered one of the world-renowned historian-experts on the history of Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. His most famous contribution to the history of Auschwitz is his pioneer, groundbreaking research “We Wept without Tears”, on the history of the “Sonderkommando”, a special Jewish prisoner squad in Auschwitz-Birkenau, compelled to work at the mass killing installations.

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Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
Join Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Here Lived.
Artist Gunter Demnig started his Stolpersteine project in 1992. Now, more than 100,000 of these Holocaust memorial stones have been installed in sidewalks around Europe. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Jane Wells traces the impact of these stones and the healing they bring to individuals and communities in the Netherlands.

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Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-09 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Keynote Speaker Dr. Peter HotezWednesday, April 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Six sessions
The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating and alarming trends of the 2020s, Antiscience and Antisemitism. Antiscience activism now manifests as climate denialism and coordinated efforts to discredit life-saving public health interventions such as vaccines, immunizations, and other interventions. The full expression of science denialism occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and now targets prominent American scientists. Antisemitism is also on the rise, as documented by the ADL and other groups.
The conference explores the current and historical overlap between antiscience and antisemitism. Such an investigation reveals a 500-year history that began during the Black Death in Europe, targeted prominent Jewish scientists in Weimar Germany and Stalinist Russia, and that continues to the present through attacks on scientists working to slow or halt pandemics and climate change. The conference will feature 8 preeminent academics in the Sciences and the Humanities.

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Zikaron BaSalon: L’Dor V’Dor
2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
Zikaron BaSalon, meaning “Remembering in the Living Room” in Hebrew, is an initiative which started in 2011 with the goal to commemorate the Holocaust and its victims on a more personal and individualistic level. Focusing much more on survivors sharing their unique experiences and promoting conversation between survivors and those listening, Zikaron BaSalon distinguishes itself from other Holocaust Education initiatives by focusing entirely on the human impact that can only be shared in a smaller, well-connected setting, with Holocaust survivors and their descendants.
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for our annual Zikaron BaSalon conversation, as a small panel including Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld, 2nd generation Alberta Totz, and 3rd generation Lauren Rubenstein discuss their experiences, and the importance of preserving the memory of the Holocaust L’dor v’dor (From Generation to Generation). This event will be happening alongside the city-wide Zikaron BaSalon which will be presented by the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston.

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"You Couldn't Grasp It All": American Forces and the Liberation of the Nazi Camps
2025-04-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
In the early spring of 1945, American troops entered and liberated several Nazi concentration camps. What they encountered defied comprehension. Since those fateful months, the names of hellish places like Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Dora-Mittelbau have become parts of our collective memory. This lecture from Dr. Jason Dawsey of the National WWII Museum and Arizona State University highlights the role of the United States in the liberation of the SS-run camps and how American servicemembers swung into action to save the lives of inmates.

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Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance
2025-04-27 15:00 - 16:30 | Congregation Brith Shalom – 4610 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX 77401, 4610 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX, 77401, United States
Please join us in observance of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6,000,000 Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this annual commemoration, we will mourn the loss of all who perished, honor those who survived and come together as a community to remember and reflect.
Coordinated by the Yom HaShoah Steering Committee and Holocaust Museum Houston
Funding for this service is generously provided by:The Morgan Family Endowment Fund, the Morgan Family Center and the Morgan Family Foundation

Arts in the Afternoon: Holocaust Sports Memorabilia Presented by Neil Keller
2025-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston – 5601 S. Braeswood Blvd Houston, TX 77096
Triumph of the Spirit: A Holocaust Sports Memorabilia ExhibitA Conversation with Neil Keller, Jewish memorabilia collector and Holocaust historian
Free program, but registration requested.
Triumph of the Spirit exhibit features Jewish athletes before, during & after the Holocaust. Featuring reproductions of rare memorabilia from the collection of Neil Keller, this dynamic exhibit tells the stories of the incredible resiliency and unshakable spirit of courageous Jewish athletes in the face of the atrocities of the Holocaust and the foundation established for future generations of Jewish athletes. Join us for a conversation with Keller to learn about the deep history and inspirational stories of the remarkable athletes that are featured in his collection of Jewish sports memorabilia.
Program presented in partnership with the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC.

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Walter Kase Free Admission Day
2025-05-04 12:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
Museum admission fees will be waived on Sunday, May 4, 2025 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, z”l.
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it soon became clear that Walter’s family’s lives would never be the same again. At the end of 1940, Walter, his parents and his sister, Rysia, were herded into a Jewish ghetto. One day in 1941, the ghetto residents were told to gather in the city square. There, in front of her family, Rysia was lined up with other young children and shot to death. Twelve-year-old Walter was sent with his father to the labor camp of Pionki, later to Auschwitz and Sosnowiec, and finally to Mauthausen and two of its sub-camps.
Walter and his father were liberated by the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army on May 5, 1945. Taken to a hospital to recuperate, Walter regained his strength, but his father succumbed a month later. Walter made his way back to Poland, where he was reunited with his mother. In 1947, Walter came to the United States, settling in Kansas City, Missouri. There, he finished his schooling, started a career in sales and was drafted and served proudly during the Korean War. Walter was able to bring his mother to the United States, where she settled in Washington, DC.
Walter moved to Houston, where he established a successful import business. He was active in Jewish causes, sitting on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust Museum Houston. The Anti-Defamation League established a Teachers’ Award in Walter’s name, and he was the first recipient of the St. Augustine Award from St. Thomas University in recognition of his life-changing impact on others.

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Film Screening | A Real Pain
2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the award-winning film, A Real Pain. Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Prior to the screening, there will be a short reception provided by our community partners, 3G HTX, AJC Houston, the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest, the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, and the Texas Jewish Historical Society.

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We The People: Freedom
2025-05-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Apollo Chamber Players’ We the People season concludes with an intergenerational conversation about freedom, democracy, and the future. While 20th century American icons Howard Hanson and Walt Whitman reflect the exquisite nuance of a democratic republic, we amplify the voices of the next generation’s creative leaders through collaborations with Houston’s Kinder HSPVA.

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Stefi Altman Free Admission Day
2025-05-15 10:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
Museum admission will be waived on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in honor of Holocaust survivor Stefi Altman, z”l.
Stefi Altman was just 13 years old when Germany overran Poland in September 1939. Soon after, Stefi’s two older brothers were arrested and sent to a labor camp, and Nazi soldiers brutuall beat her fater and drove the family from their house. They fled to Stefi’s grandfather’s farm, taking shelter in the barn.
The family remained together until 1940, when Stefi was sent to the labor camp of Jastkov. Later she was sent to Treblinka and Majdanek. Next, she was sent to the camp of Dorohucza. Although Dorohucza had neither gas chambers nor crematoria of the other camps, death always hovered nearby. Like Stefi, many of the inmates were only half alive by the time they got there. At the end of 1943, Stefi discovered that her sister, Kayla, had also been sent to Dorohucza. But relief soon turned to horror when Kayla was brutally murdered.
Stefi managed, against all odds, to escape Dorohucza. For the remainder of the war, she hid in a coffin-like space underneath a barn that belonged to a sympathetic Polish farmer. After she was liberated by the Soviets, she learned that her entire family had been murdered.
Stefi Altman, z”l, passed away in December 2017.

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