Project Shema is a training and support organization built by progressives to help the Jewish community and allies challenge anti-Jewish ideas. This training aims to deepen understanding across lines of difference by nurturing empathy for Jewish identity, traumas and lived experiences. In this workshop, participants will learn: How Jews understand their identity and history What […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, in tandem with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Love Gets a Room. Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Surrounded by starvation, cold, and threatening Nazis, one dilapidated theater is alive with Jewish actors and musicians putting on a musical comedy for a […]
SOLD OUT! Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a presentation from Dr. Ruth J. Simmons on her upbringing in Jim Crow-era Texas and how that affected her career in academia. A Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University and Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University on HBCU Initiatives, Dr. Simmons served as President of Prairie […]
American filmmaker Jake Paltrow revisits the 1962 trial of Adolf Eichmann with a gripping Hebrew-language historical drama centered on three Israeli characters on the periphery of Eichmann’s last days: a precocious Libyan immigrant boy, a Moroccan prison guard and a Polish Holocaust survivor working for the prosecution. With Eichmann relegated to the background, the trio’s […]
In the spring of 1942, the Nazis ordered the Slovak government to send a slave labor force and received 999 teenage, Jewish girls. Their railway ticket was a one-way trip to Auschwitz. First-time Director/Producer and author of the international best-selling book, 999, Heather Dune Macadam spent eleven years interviewing survivors of the first transport all over […]
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 ToursSaturday, March 9 at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.Sunday, March 10 at 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.Monday, March 11 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.Tuesday, March 12 at […]
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection. This program will present collaborative works by Joseph Bologne, William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, and Houstonian jazz pianist and composer, Brooke Wyatt. The DACAMERA Young Artist program is a fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, vocalists and […]
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. This new […]
Holocaust Museum Houston will host free admission Sunday, February 18, courtesy of Shell USA, in honor of Black Art Houston. Join Khambrel Marshall at 2 p.m. in conversation with Houston […]
Presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Black Art Houston is a celebration of contemporary Black art throughout the city. Holocaust Museum Houston will host free admission Sunday, February 18, courtesy […]