Holocaust Museum Houston is delighted to host a concert featuring international Israeli soprano, Sivan Rotem. The recital will include Israeli and Jewish music in Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew, as well […]
All times are shown in Central Time. Dan Grunfeld, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family, a delicately interwoven narrative that doesn't […]
Are you interested in learning more about Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) and how you can help our visitors experience an exhibition that offers a look at the life and work […]
Join us for a special bilingual presentation of Jasminne Mendez’s newest children’s book, Josefina's Habichuelas / Las Habichuelas de Josefina. Like all kids, Josefina loves to eat sweets. She loves […]
X-Troop?tells the?riveting?true-life story of a motley group of intellectuals, artists and athletes, who stopped at nothing to defeat the Nazis. This group of Jewish refugees escaped to Britain from Germany, […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a critical discussion with the organization Campaign for Uyghurs and hear from a Uyghur survivor. "The Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim group, have been targeted by […]
Rebecca Erbelding is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, which won the JDC-Herbert Katzki National Jewish Book Award in 2018. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University. She worked as an archivist and curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2003-2015, and […]
Jewish people who lived in late-19th century Central Eastern Europe experienced oppression on one hand and emancipation on the other hand, depending on the specific time and place. This was the case for Moravian Jews. Those individuals and families that were exceptionally successful in their own business or in the arts participated in the everyday […]
Two girls who fought with the partisans in Croatia; a teenager who survived the Holocaust because she was sentenced to ten years’ hard labor in the Gulag—for joining a youth group; a girl who survived, unlike her parents, because they courageously sent her to England on the Kindertransport. The experiences of women in the Holocaust […]
In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join us for a special reading by poet, writer, educator, and activist Lupe Mendez. Originally from Galveston, Texas, Lupe Mendez is the author of WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas […]