Author and historian Dr. Dwight Watson will discuss his book, Race and the Houston Police Department 1930-1990. In Houston, as in the rest of the American South up until the 1950s, the police force reflected and enforced the segregation of the larger society. When the nation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s, this […]
In celebration of Black History Month, Holocaust Museum Houston will host a one-night screening of the highly acclaimed 2016 documentary film, “13th.” Synopsis: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African Americans. The title of Ava DuVernay’s […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
n observance of Black History Month, the Boniuk Library is organizing a book discussion session about Destined to Witness by Hans Massoquoi. The child of an African diplomat and a German nurse, Massoquoi grew up in Nazi Germany. Swayed by the charisma of Hitler and national pride young Hans learns what it means to be […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
The Hungarian Holocaust constitutes a very special chapter of the Holocaust. Although it took place very close to the end of World War II, with deportations starting in May 1944, the Nazi industrial killing machine was by then so sophisticated that some 565,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the end of 1944. The speaker's parents […]
Kam Franklin Photo credit: Jay Tovar Join Holocaust Museum Houston in our first event celebrating Black History Month with a lecture and performance piece from musician and activist Kam Franklin on why she believes the healing and unity will not occur without acceptance of the trauma, radical healing, empathy, education, and inclusivity. “A broken ankle […]
Holocaust Museum Houston proudly invites you to an exclusive behind the scenes look at Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. This special event will feature Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Curator Arielle Weininger and Photographer Jim Lommasson. Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. is an epic exhibition showcasing more than 60 personal artifacts brought […]
To remember the victims of the Holocaust, on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 the Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston (ICCC) in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum Houston and sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy in Houston will present an online lecture on the Italian Jewish community before the Holocaust, the Nazi rise to […]
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Museum admission will be free for all on this annual day of commemoration to honor the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust.