Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with FotoFest, host a screening the award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol by Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov. This harrowing film follows Chernov and […]
Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler There are many Jewish legends about the golem – a creature formed from clay and brought to life using mystical knowledge to serve the Jewish […]
Since 9/11, domestic extremists and white nationalists have carried out almost three times more attacks in the U.S. than Islamic extremists according to government data. In the past 50 years, other than […]
The 2023 Jewish Book & Arts Festival presents In the Garden of the Righteous by Richard Hurowitz. In the Garden of the Righteous is a deep dive into the lives […]
Texas Liberator Johnnie Marino landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought at the Battle of the Bulge. In April 1945, he entered Hadamar and Bergen-Belsen with Allied troops. Photo […]
The Houston Symposium in Philosophy of Religion presents a new series of talks about religion. It gathers scholars of all faiths from Houston, and other Texan universities, to share their […]
Image credit: “The Negro Motorist Green Book” cover, 1940. Courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, New York Public Library.On November 16, […]
Times are listed in Central Time. Looking for an engaging research project for your students that combines historical events and personal narratives? Using online materials from both Centropa and Holocaust […]
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10— the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the American Jewish Committee Houston for a special screening of the Ukrainian film by Ady Walter SHTTL. This film follows a Jewish Soviet Red Army soldier returning home to his shtetl in Western Ukraine, on the eve of the NAZI invasion. This film offers a rare glimpse into Jewish life in the […]