• Film Screening | A Real Pain

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the award-winning film, A Real Pain. Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Prior […]

  • Walter Kase Free Admission Day

    Holocaust Museum Houston

    Museum admission fees will be waived on Sunday, May 4, 2025 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, z”l. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it soon became clear that Walter’s family’s lives would never be the same again. At the end of 1940, Walter, his parents and his sister, Rysia, were herded into […]

  • Arts in the Afternoon: Holocaust Sports Memorabilia Presented by Neil Keller

    Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston - 5601 S. Braeswood Blvd Houston, TX 77096

    Triumph of the Spirit: A Holocaust Sports Memorabilia ExhibitA Conversation with Neil Keller, Jewish memorabilia collector and Holocaust historian Free program, but registration requested. Triumph of the Spirit exhibit features Jewish athletes before, during & after the Holocaust. Featuring reproductions of rare memorabilia from the collection of Neil Keller, this dynamic exhibit tells the stories of the […]

  • Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance

    Congregation Brith Shalom - 4610 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX 77401 4610 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX, United States

    Please join us 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 annual commemoration, we will mourn the loss of all who perished, honor those who survived and come together as a community to remember and reflect. Coordinated by the Yom […]

  • “You Couldn’t Grasp It All”: American Forces and the Liberation of the Nazi Camps

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    In the early spring of 1945, American troops entered and liberated several Nazi concentration camps. What they encountered defied comprehension. Since those fateful months, the names of hellish places like Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Dora-Mittelbau have become parts of our collective memory. This lecture from Dr. Jason Dawsey of the National WWII Museum and Arizona […]

  • Zikaron BaSalon: L’Dor V’Dor

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    Zikaron BaSalon, meaning “Remembering in the Living Room" in Hebrew, is an initiative which started in 2011 with the goal to commemorate the Holocaust and its victims on a more […]

  • Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    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 […]

  • Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    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 […]

  • Mischlinge Exposé

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    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 […]