“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.” – Elie Wiesel Zikaron BaSalon (In Hebrew- “remembrance in the living room”), offers a meaningful and intimate way to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and address its implications through discussions at home among family, friends, and guests. Join a living room in your area on Wednesday, […]
Sabri Atman Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the third lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with Sabri Atman, the founder and the director of the Assyrian Genocide Research, SEEYFO CENTER. Sabri Atman is and Assyrian who was born in Nsibin (Tur Abdin) in southeast Turkey, moved to Austria due to political reasons, and […]
Pictured: Sephardic Latinx Oral History Interview Estefany Torres, Alena Aguilar, Jacob Varon, Karlos Villafana Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a moderated discussion of The Sephardic Latinx Oral History Project, a collaboration between the University of Houston and Holocaust Museum Houston’s Latino Initiatives Program. The project explores Sephardic Latinx history using oral histories led by students […]
The site of the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942; the villa at Am Grossen Wannsee 56/58; undated (postwar photo) Please join the Museum in observance of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6 million Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this annual commemoration, we will mourn the loss […]
This workshop institutes a cultural aspect to the writing of historical stories that challenges the traditional linear and formalist approaches to writing “history”. Following the influence of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Hamilton, this workshop will work toward being able to incorporate cultural, family, and personal stories into a new way of writing prose or poetry. Christopher Carmona is […]
Left: Dr. Christopher Carmona; Right: "El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American Experience of Land Theft, Lynching, and Resistance" book cover Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the second lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with Dr. Christopher Carmona, author of El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American […]
Join us for our Docent Meet and Greet to learn more the dedicated community of docents at Holocaust Museum Houston. As a docent, you will be helping to educate students, teachers, community groups, and adults that visit the Museum for a tour. Most importantly, docents help to tell the stories of our Holocaust Survivor community to new […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the first lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with the author of Plunder, Menachem Kaiser. Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in […]
In correlation with the exhibition, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, meet Freida Rothman, award-winning jewelry and accessories designer and granddaughter to 4 Holocaust survivors. Hear her inspirational mission to honor the legacy of her grandparents through her brand and her national Woman of Strength campaign. To shop FREIDA ROTHMAN please […]
Morris and Linda Penn Hy Penn weaves a remarkable tale of survival and hope as he takes us on the journey of his parents and maternal grandmother from eastern Europe to Texas. His mother Linda, and grandmother Riva, survived 9 different camps including Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. Morris, his father, escaped being shot by […]
