Events

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin shares his testimony. Between 1939 and 1945, Orlin and his family lived on the run. The eldest son of Sender and […]

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her story. Ruth and her sister Lea lived in Sinsheim, Germany when Hitler came to power. The family was deported to […]

Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s […]

Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians. Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special […]

In addition to his evening lecture, Richard Hatch will perform a magic show for families during Spring Break. Although Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, […]

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 ToursTuesday, March 11 - Friday, March […]

Explore the Museum's galleries and featured exhibitions, Houston Survivor Series: Liberation and Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920, at no charge with free admission presented by The Village of River Oaks.

In early 1930’s Soviet Ukraine, the regime of Josef Stalin ran a genocidal campaign of starvation against the rural peasant class. With the intention to both collectivize Ukraine’s rich agricultural industry, as well as wipe out the Kulak class, food was withheld from millions of civilians in the countryside, leading to one of the worst, […]

Celebrate Black History Month at the Museum as the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Willie Lee Gay H-Town Chapter explores the invaluable records for researching formerly enslaved and free persons of color in the immediate post-Civil War period. Session 1: “In Their Own Words”This presentation by Diane L. Richard, MEng & MBA, a professional genealogical researcher, […]

American flutist and sociomusicologist Dr. Christine Beard will examine the role music played during the Holocaust. This poignant and informative lecture-recital explores how music served as a form of resistance and allowed prisoners to temporarily “escape” their inhumane circumstances, how the Nazis used music to inflict mental and emotional torture, and what music was banned […]