Shang-Chai
Join us as Israeli journalist Dvir Bar-Gal shares his decades of research into the story of the Shanghai Ghetto, and how it served not only as a refuge for European […]
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Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance
Congregation Beth Yeshurun - 4525 Beechnut St., Houston, TX 77096Please 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 […]
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Yom HaShoah/Walter Kase Free Admission Day
Holocaust Museum HoustonMuseum admission fees will be waived on Sunday, May 5, 2024 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, z”l and Yom HaShoah. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it […]
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Zikaron BaSalon
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterZikaron BaSalon, “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 […]
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Film Screening | “The Survivor”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterAfter surviving years of being forced to fight fellow inmates in death matches at Auschwitz, Harry Haft attempts to rebuild his life with what fragments are left. Plagued with survivors […]
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Project Shema Public Workshop on Antisemitism
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterProject 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 […]
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Film Screening | “Love Gets a Room”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterJoin 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, […]
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Public Lecture with Dr. Ruth J. Simmons
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterSOLD 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 […]
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Film Screening | “June Zero”
Kaplan Theatre at the ERJCC - 5601 S. Braeswood BlvdAmerican 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 […]
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Film Screening | “999: The Forgotten Girls”
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterIn 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 […]