• Film Screening | “SHTTL”

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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 […]

  • Human Rights Day

    Holocaust Museum Houston

    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 […]

  • Alley Theatre Performance | “Resonance of Time”

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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, […]

  • Houston Symposium in Philosophy of Religion

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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 […]

  • Veterans Day

    Holocaust Museum Houston

    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 […]

  • Domestic Terrorism & Extremism: The Threat to the U.S. & Beyond

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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 Golem Legend and Holocaust Memory

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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 […]

  • Film Screening | “20 Days in Mariupol”

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    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 his team as they document the first 20 days of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in the besieged city of Mariupol. As the only international […]