HMH is excited to announce extended free admission hours on Thursday, March 12 and Thursday March 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please note: Docent-guided drop-in tours are available on a first come, first served basis, and are included with general admission. A signup sheet is available at the Admissions Desk 30 minutes before […]
Between 1940-1945 the sheer luck of where you were living made a world of difference to the Jews of Scandinavia. For unique political and geographic reasons, the Scandinavian Jews of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark had very different experiences. During the German occupation, Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Defying the occupying […]
Please join Holocaust Museum Houston for the final presentation of Riverwood Middle School's award winning production of And a Child Shall Lead by Michael Slade.
Storybook Opera, Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope tells the true story of young Renée, whose love of music and memories of butterflies in her Hungarian childhood sustain her through the darkness of the Holocaust. With lyrical storytelling and vivid illustrations, this powerful story introduces young people to history through a message of […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for an intimate author talk in the Boniuk Library. Houston local Christian Bancroft is the author of A Ghost Has No Fantasies. "Through haunting poetry and prose, A Ghost Has No Fantasies illuminates the forgotten voices of LGBTQ+ individuals who suffered under Nazi persecution. Drawing from archival documents, survivor testimonies, and Gestapo files, Christian […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in the Boniuk Library for an afternoon discussion with local author Darlene Campos of her book The Center of the Earth. This historical fiction aimed middle grade […]
Storybook Opera, Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope tells the true story of young Renée, whose love of music and memories of butterflies in her Hungarian childhood sustain […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to present Resistance: They Fought Back as part of the Houston Jewish Film Festival. "We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a night with Dr. Pamela Toler, Author of The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. "Today we face an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of […]
Zikaron BaSalon, “Memories in a Living Room”, began in Israel in 2011 and has grown into a global movement. Houston’s Jewish community has been part of Zikaron BaSalon since 2017. Since then, each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, people open their homes to small gatherings where Holocaust survivors or their descendants share personal testimony in an intimate, respectful […]