Events

Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Keynote Speaker Dr. Peter HotezWednesday, April 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Six sessions  The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An […]

Join Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Here Lived. Artist Gunter Demnig started his Stolpersteine project in 1992. Now, more […]

This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. This event is available in person or virtually via Zoom. Lunch will be served for those that […]

The Mischlinge Exposé weaves a multimedia tapestry around a little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge (a derogatory Nazi term for those neither fully Jewish nor fully Aryan). The program interweaves video […]

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin shares his testimony. Between 1939 and 1945, Orlin and his family lived on the run. The eldest son of Sender and […]

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her story. Ruth and her sister Lea lived in Sinsheim, Germany when Hitler came to power. The family was deported to the Gurs interment camp in 1940, and their mother was faced with a very difficult decision: to let a Jewish philanthropic organization called Oeuvres de […]

Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s younger sister Elizabeth Bellak who survived the Holocaust and has preserved Renia’s legacy of beauty and love. This program is available in person (included in […]

Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians. Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special evening with magician Richard Hatch. He will share with us the story of the German Jewish amateur magician and magic historian Guenther Dammann and the […]

In addition to his evening lecture, Richard Hatch will perform a magic show for families during Spring Break. Although Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, he finds it easier to break the laws of nature than to discover them. A childhood interest in magic became a lifelong obsession, and he […]

Visitors interested in a docent-led experience can join one of the many drop-in tours throughout Spring Break. Tours are subject to availability. English Drop-In ToursTuesday, March 11 - Friday, March 14 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pmThursday, March 13 at 11:00 am, 2:00 pm and 3:00 pmSaturday, March 15 at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm and […]