Tracing the last 10 years in the brief life of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, the animated biopic, "Charlotte," deals head-on with depression and suicide as well as the Nazis’ genocidal war. Growing up in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War, Charlotte is fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, but her dreams of becoming […]
For Banned Books Week (Sept. 18-24), Brave Little Company, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Montrose Center announce, “Our Stories Belong: Rainbow Storytime for ALL of Houston’s Kids.” Our Stories Belong is a free, in-person book club packed with creative activities, ideal for families with kids aged 5-10. A boy who wants to be a mermaid? […]
All times are listed in Central Time. In this hour-long program, poet, writer and performer Jasminne Mendez will share poems and a brief history commemorating the 85th anniversary of the 1937 Haitian Massacre which occurred along the northwestern border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti during the Trujillo Era. These poems and her work seek […]
All times are listed in Central Time. Holocaust Museum Houston kicks off Latinx Heritage Month with author Julissa Arce who will discuss her newest book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case For Rejecting Assimilation. Julissa Arce is a writer, activist, and social changemaker. She is the nationally best-selling author of My (Underground) American […]
While Childhood Slept is a heart-wrenching original musical that follows the true story of the boys of Home Number One in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin. The children create a secret republic within the camp, publishing their own magazine of art, poetry, and short stories called Vedem. A visit from The Red Cross presents the opportunity […]
This event will take place in person and virtually on Zoom. All event times are listed in Central time. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a special presentation by Rwandan genocide survivor Henriette Mutegwaraba, as she recalls in her memoir, By Any Means Necessary - Healing and Forgiveness After Genocide, an idyllic childhood in 1970s Rwanda—idyllic […]
In conjunction with the annual Latinx Initiatives Advisory Committee event, Holocaust Museum Houston will host a special presentation and book talk with Dr. Jesus Esparza, editor of the newly published book The Truth in Our Stories: Immigrant Voices in Radical Times. Immigration has long been a controversial issue in American politics and remains one of […]
During National Delicatessen Month, August 1-31, both Kenny and Ziggy's New York Delicatessen & Restaurant locations are offering a multi-choice, three-course menu during lunch and dinner for $38, plus tax and gratuity, with 10 percent of each meal sold going to HMH to fund the Museum's education programs. As an added incentive, HMH will offer […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a one-day educator workshop on teaching the Holocaust. Educators will learn approaches to teaching the Holocaust using activities and resources designed for the classroom. Educators will be introduced to the Holocaust through tours of HMH’s Galleries and gain instructional strategies and resources to support Holocaust education in their classrooms. Participants […]
All times are listed in Central Time. ”Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was an activist, novelist, educator, lawyer, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest. Black, queer, and gender nonconforming, Murray worked passionately to build bridges between the civil rights movement, which she criticized for being male-dominated, and women’s rights activists, many of whom had serious blind spots on […]