Mandela with a raised fist, moments after his release from prison (after 27 years) on February 11, 1990.Photograph by Graeme Williams Explore Mandela: Struggle for Freedom, a rich sensory experience of imagery, soundscape, digital media and objects, explores the earthshaking fight for justice and human dignity in South Africa – and its relevance to issues of […]
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. CST Apollo Chamber Players presents Music of Exile. A cross-cultural, millennia-spanning program of diasporic new music inspired by composers seeking to illuminate our individual and collective histories. Music of Exile features newly commissioned music by Syrian-American composer Malek Jandali, Israeli-born composer Gilad Cohen, and the world premiere of "Distant Shores" by Rice University faculty […]
Join us for an evening with Fredy Peccerelli, the Executive Director of FAFG, The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala), a nonprofit contributing to the strengthening of the justice system and the respect for human rights through the investigation and documentation of historic violations of the right to life in cases […]
Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred, hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach. The goal of the Creating Possibility […]
Cost: $7 Holocaust Museum Houston invites you to a special Girl Scout-only virtual tour of our Holocaust Gallery to commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Learn about what the Holocaust was, how the Nazis came to power, how people stood up to the Nazis, what happened in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and why we […]
Ursula Meyer’s Teddy BearBremen, Germany, ca. 1925, Courtesy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Photograph by Jim Lommasson Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen, invites you to join us for a private look at Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. This epic exhibition showcases more than 60 personal artifacts brought to America by Survivors of […]
Please join us online where we will come together as a community in observance of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6,000,000 Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this virtual event, we will mourn the loss of all who perished, honor those who survived and together we will reflect, […]
Film Synopsis:Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's "The Cordillera of Dreams" completes his trilogy (with "Nostalgia for the Light" and "The Pearl Button") on the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. The imposing Andes run the length of […]
In honor of Women’s History Month, Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen and PNC Bank invite you to join us for a virtual film screening of RBG. At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the […]
During the Third Reich, alcohol served as both a literal and metaphorical lubricant for acts of violence and atrocity by the men of the Storm Troopers (SA), the SS, and the police, and its use and abuse was widespread among the perpetrators. Over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry […]
