In preparation for Holocaust Remembrance Week, join Holocaust Museum Houston for a half-day educator workshop on teaching the Holocaust. This workshop is designed for elementary school teachers. Educators will learn approaches to teaching the Holocaust in age-appropriate ways by focusing on leadership, upstander behavior, and character-building. Educators will tour our galleries and gain instructional strategies […]

Join us for a free screening of the documentary Family Treasures Lost and Found. In the film, journalist Karen A. Frenkel channels the driving force of discovery to investigate her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. Her research leads her to astonishing revelations of her family’s journeys through Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and New York, and sheds light on […]

Lee Yaron examines the profound experiences of 100 people whose lives were forever changed by the attacks on October 7, 2023. Through intimate and evocative stories, Yaron captures the emotions, resilience and humanity of individuals navigating moments of joy, loss and transformation. This compelling anthology commemorates a day of historical significance and explores the broader implications of […]

All times are in Central Standard Time. Join Holocaust Museum Houston, Centropa, and the Holocaust Center for Humanity for a free webinar for teachers. Through this interactive webinar, educators will learn how to teach about memory and the memorialization of historic events; engage students in a geography-based approach around what the Holocaust was and how […]

Very few seats remain for Mitch Albom. We do expect that seats will become available as we get closer to the event. If you are interested in adding your name to the waiting list for this event, please RSVP with the number of people in your party and correct contact information. We will contact you by email/phone when […]

In October of 2018, the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suffered the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history. "A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting" tells the story of the events on that harrowing day, and how a broken community attempted to find some semblance of healing and action […]

As a high school student in Philadelphia, Lucy Taus Katz became a voice for the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. When Lucy’s English teacher encouraged her to enter an essay competition entitled “Why I Am Proud to Be an American,” she wrote about her experience as a Hidden Child during the […]

In the midst of the Unite the Right Rally aftermath and the meteoric rise of White Nationalist figure Richard Spencer, a Jewish mother from Whitefish, Montana finds herself and her family targeted by a Neo-Nazi troll storm. In the face of an alarming growth of American fascism, Tanya Gersh finds solidarity with her community by […]

Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to partner with close to 40 other local nonprofit Jewish organizations to host a community-wide vigil to commemorate the tragedy of October 7, 2023. This event is free and open to the public. It will be held on Monday, October 7 at 7:15 PM at Congregation Beth Yeshurun. Registration is […]

Join Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with HTX Art in the Heart for our fourth annual Día de los Muertos Community Altar Workshop.  Participants at this family-friendly event will explore the meaning and significance of Día De Los Muertos and learn about the altar making process. Attendees will have the opportunity to create crafts in […]