Points of View with Jeremy Maron
2019-07-11 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Works from nine photographers were selected for Points of View, initially presented at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Curator, Jeremy Maron will talk about the juried exhibit that reflects themes in the categories of freedom of expression; inclusion and diversity; reconciliation; and human rights and the environment. Jeremy Maron is a Researcher-Curator at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada.
Photo Credit: Best Photograph, Freedom of Expression – I Me Myself, 2012, Rajneesh Fontana, Victoria, British Columbia

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Free Afternoon with The Buzz Magazines
2019-07-25 12:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston
Join The Buzz Magazines for a free tour at the Museum led by HMH docent and Buzz staff writer Russell Weil at 2:00 pm.
Enjoy free admission from noon to 5 pm.

Portraits of the Rainbow
2019-07-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
In partnership with QFest, Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals’ group, NEXTGen invites you to a screening of Portraits of the Rainbow. Photographer Leslie Kee lived in Japan for 25 years. As a bisexual himself, he trains his gaze routinely on subjects of taboo and discrimination. He was the perfect match for the “Out In Japan,” aiming to eventually feature 10,000 LGBTQIA+s throughout Japan. He feels the time has come to push back against the pervasive prejudice and legal discrimination. The film follows the ambitious project for over a year as Leslie completes the first 1,000 portraits. We get to intimately know a set of very different protagonists: two women, deeply in love, who have their first child and are faced with a society not ready to accommodate their family structure. Another woman, devastated by the loss of her female partner to suicide, finds hope in finally fulfilling her lifelong ambition of becoming a man. And a gay university professor who fights against the steep discrimination HIV-positives still face in Japan. Even Leslie himself has a life-changing experience.
Directed by Ayumi Nakagawa. This film will be screened in Japanese and have English subtitles.
(2018; 79 min; Japan; Japanese; Color; Digital)
Following the screening of “Portraits of the Rainbow,” Pride Portraits founder Eric Edward Schell will speak about how he created a global movement in Houston, Texas by combining activism and photography. The LGBTQIA+ community and its allies, with the help of Pride Portraits have a platform to share their narratives their way. Schell will also speak about Stonewall 50, and what this past June meant for LGBTQIA+ History.
Over the past two and a half years, Pride Portraits has become the largest LGBTQIA+ visibility campaign to date. The campaign, comprised of a photograph and statement from each participant, seeks to represent the community and its allies one photograph and story at a time.

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National Deli Month
2019-08-01 07:00 - 09:00, 2019-08-01 07:00 - 2019-08-31 21:00 | Both Kenny & Ziggy’s locations
During National Delicatessen Month, August 1-31, both Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen & Restaurant locations are offering a multi-choice, three-course menu during lunch and dinner for $38, plus tax and gratuity, with 10 percent of each meal sold going to HMH to fund the Museum’s education programs.
As an added incentive, HMH will offer anyone who purchases a National Deli Month meal a complimentary ticket.
For more information, visit www.delimonth.com.

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Boniuk Library Book Club – “Little Fires Everywhere”
2019-08-01 10:00 - 11:30, 2019-08-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Beck Lobby
Join the Boniuk Library Book Club at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for a special meeting where books and art collide. Attendees will take a special tour exploring visual arts connected to the literary themes of the August book selection: “Little Fires Everywhere,” by Celeste Ng.
This award winning novel is set in the idyllic town of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a seemingly perfect suburb. But, as the long established Richardson family crosses paths with newcomers Mia and Pearl Warren their lives become increasingly entangled, and the town begins to reveal its hidden imperfections. This novel explores issues of race, privilege, and the uncertainty of good intentions.
Come explore the Museum of Fine Arts Houston on a tour for book and art lovers alike.

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The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Its Drastic Ramifications and Impact on the Jewish and Global Community with Rabbi Steven Weil
2019-08-01 18:00 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Who was Adolf Eichmann? What role did he play in the genocide of the Jews? These are some of the points that Rabbi Steven Weil will touch on during his talk about the capture and trial of Eichmann.Rabbi Steven Weil is the Senior Managing Director of the Orthodox Union. He was ordained at the Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan Theological Seminary and holds Masters in Business Administration from NYUs Stern School of Business.

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National Deli Month
2019-08-05 07:00 - 21:00

Judgment at Nuremberg
2019-08-08 18:30 - 22:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
In this courtroom drama set in 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood (Spencer Tracy) hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), but also from the widow of a Nazi general (Marlene Dietrich), an idealistic U.S. Army captain (William Shatner) and reluctant witness Irene Wallner (Judy Garland).
In 2013, Judgment at Nuremberg was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

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The Civil Society Film Series is eligible for 1.5 CLE credits (including 0.5 ethics credit). In partnership with South Texas College of Law Houston.

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Operation Finale
2019-08-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Fifteen years after the end of World War II, a team of top-secret Israeli agents travels to Argentina to track down Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps. Hoping to sneak him out of the country to stand trial, agent Peter Malkin soon finds himself playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the notorious war criminal.

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The Civil Society Film Series is eligible for 1.5 CLE credits (including 0.5 ethics credit). In partnership with South Texas College of Law Houston.

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NEXTGen's Conversation with a Survivor
2019-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Kenny & Ziggy’s at 2327 Post Oak Blvd.
Join Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals group, NEXTGen, for a Conversation With A Survivor featuring Bill Orlin. Between 1939 and 1945, Bill and his family lived on the run. Bill, the eldest son of Sender and Sonia Orlinski, was seven years old when German troops invaded Poland and occupied his hometown of Brok. The Jewish residents were forcibly marched to Ostrow Mazowiecki, about 50 miles northwest of Warsaw.
The forced march, although terrifying at the time, may have saved the family’s lives. Once Bill and his family were in Soviet-controlled Poland, they continued their eastward journey into the Soviet interior, where they remained in relative safety for the rest of WWII. When Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941 the family “ran,” recalls Bill. Although the family was together, life was tremendously difficult, suffering from hunger and malnutrition for the next several years.
This special event will be at Kenny & Ziggy’s for National Delicatessen Month. Attendees may attend for free but are encouraged to purchase a multi-choice, three-course menu for $38, plus tax and gratuity, with 10% of each meal sold going to HMH to fund the Museum’s education programs. As an added incentive, HMH will offer anyone who purchases a National Deli Month meal a complimentary HMH admission ticket.

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For more information, please contact Rocio Rubio, Corporate Relations Officer, at rrubio@hmh.org or 713-527-1838.

Denial
2019-08-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
When university professor Deborah E. Lipstadt includes World War II historian David Irving in a book about Holocaust deniers, Irving accuses her of libel and sparks a legal battle for historical truth. With the burden of proof placed on the accused, Lipstadt and her legal team fight to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Based on the book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.”

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The Civil Society Film Series is eligible for 1.5 CLE credits (including 0.5 ethics credit). In partnership with South Texas College of Law Houston.

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Boniuk Library Book Club - “White Rose”
2019-09-05 09:00 - 10:30 | Boniuk Library
On September 5th, Boniuk Library’s book club is meeting to celebrate the right to read, write, and create with a discussion of “White Rose” by Kip Wilson. Based on a true story, this novel follows Sophie Scholl—a member of the non-violent resistance group White Rose— who rebelled against the Nazi regime by writing and distributing pamphlets denouncing their crimes.
Join us in Boniuk Library for a discussion on censorship and resistance along with a sneak peek of our Library’s celebration of Banned Books Week (September 22-28th).
For more information about Banned Books Week please visit www.bannedbooksweek.org.

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Out of the Cloud with Sue Kaufman
2019-09-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom
Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with the Greater Houston Jewish Genealogy Society, will host a complimentary general genealogy research lecture for enthusiasts looking to find offline resources. The “Out of the Cloud” class provides genealogy buffs an alternative “on the ground” research path to discover family history information. This lecture is part of a new collaborative effort of both organizations to provide educational programs focusing on genealogy.
The presentation will be led by Sue Kaufman, senior manager of the Houston Public Library’s Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research in Houston. With more than 30 years of experience as a genealogy librarian, Ms. Kaufman is a past president of the Texas State Genealogical Society, and currently serves as its Director of Education.

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New Antisemitism in Europe? Facts and Comments from a German Perspective with Professor Eric Hilgendorf
2019-09-12 18:00 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Bobby Lapin will moderate a Q&A with Eric Hilgendorf, a professor of law at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and chairman of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law.
Light refreshments will be served from 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm.

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NEXTGen’s Tacos & Tours
2019-09-15 10:30 | Mincberg Gallery
Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals group, NEXTGen, invites you to an exclusive tour of the Museum’s traveling exhibit, Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann, which closes the same evening. This event is a great opportunity to mingle with socially conscious individuals over breakfast and learn more about Holocaust Museum Houston.
Operation Finale is a co-production of The Mossad – Israeli Secret Intelligence Service; Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel; and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Cleveland, Ohio.
The exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from the Maltz Family Foundation.
Special thanks to La Calle for generously donating tacos for this event.
For more information, please contact Rocio Rubio, Corporate Relations Officer, at rrubio@hmh.org or 713-527-1838.

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Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank
2019-09-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Holocaust Museum Houston is teaming up with Houston Chamber Choir to present Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank, a groundbreaking musical work by British composer James Whitbourn. Hailed as a masterpiece, this work shines new light on a story of the triumph of the human heart over evil. Annelies signals the inaugural production for The Mady and Ken Kades Stage inside the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater at the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston.
On September 21, Mady and Ken Kades will host a VIP reception in the Museums Moral Choices Hall, followed by the concert.
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Artwork created by portrait artist Daniel Mark Duffy, danielmarkduffy.com

Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank
2019-09-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-09-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Holocaust Museum Houston is teaming up with Houston Chamber Choir to present Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank, a groundbreaking musical work by British composer James Whitbourn. Hailed as a masterpiece, this work shines new light on a story of the triumph of the human heart over evil. Annelies signals the inaugural production for The Mady and Ken Kades Stage inside the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater at the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston.
Click here to become a Houston Chamber Choir subscriber.
Artwork created by portrait artist Daniel Mark Duffy, danielmarkduffy.com

From behind the barbed wire: Uncaged Art from the Tornillo Childrens Detention Center
2019-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Director of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso and an Associate Professor in History, as she explores the ethical and historical issues associated with curating an art exhibit created by anonymous migrant youth held in detention. Tornillo opened in June 2018 and closed in January 2019. At the time, it was the largest detention center for young unaccompanied asylum-seekers. In December 2018 and January 2019, students engaged in an art project intended to help them remember their towns, cities and countries as well as the culture and history of where they came from. While psychologists and attorneys witnessed depressed and anxious youth, held in prison like settings, they were able to create beautiful art that spoke to their desire to be free.
Yolanda Chávez Leyva was born and raised on the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border and has dedicated her life to listening to and documenting the histories of fronterizos, border people. She specializes in border history, public and oral history and Chicana history. She is co-founder of Museo Urbano, a museum of the streets that highlights fronterizo history by taking it where people are from museums to the actual streets of El Paso.
Admission is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

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Community Art Workshop: Día de los Muertos
2019-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom
oin us for a community art workshop with artist Theresa Escobedo. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to make sugar skulls, paper flowers and create papel picado in honor of Día de los Muertos.
The sugar skulls, flowers, and papel picado created in this workshop will also be included in the community ofrenda (altar) displayed in the museum through November.
Theresa Escobedo (b. 1985)
Theresa Escobedo is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator active in Houston. Her creative work intersects ancestry, history, and spiritualism, and combines elements of the artist’s mixed cultural heritage to demonstrate and ultimately represent broad ancestral influences and cosmopolitan spiritual perspectives. Her practice has evolved to include the design and installation of ofrendas, each of which demonstrates a decisive act of remembrance and works to safeguard familial mythologies, complex cultural histories, and spiritual pursuits. These days, her approach to altar-making merges indigenous practices with contemporary influences and affirms the universality of the practice of altar-making as an art form.
Her most recent work, presented at Holocaust Museum Houston, has its roots in the family history described in the book Stolen Heritage. Authored by the artist’s third cousin, Abel Rubio, the published tome offers anecdotal accounts of a family’s struggle for survival in the Texas/Mexican frontier, participation on both sides of the conflict during the Texas/Mexican revolution, and the post-revolutionary trauma of stolen life and land.
The event will be hosted in person and is for all ages. Admission is free and open to the public.
Please note: Face masks are required for all guests ages 2 and up. Complimentary masks are available at the Security desk.

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Boniuk Library Book Club — “The Library Book”
2019-10-10 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Boniuk Library
This month Boniuk Library’s Book Club is joining hundreds of readers across the Gulf Coast Region in reading, discussing, and attending special events around this year’s Gulf Coast Reads pick: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean.
Equal parts true crime and love-letter to libraries, “The Library Book” examines the Los Angeles Public Library fire. Susan Orlean masterfully weaves together the fire investigation with stories from the Library’s past and present to create a vivid picture of the role libraries play in our lives.
Check out the book everyone’s talking about and join the discussion on October 10.
Be on the lookout for other Gulf Coast Reads events at the Museum and around Houston as we celebrate libraries and the right to read throughout October.

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How Identity Ages
2019-10-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) and the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) present “How Identity Ages,” a panel discussion on the impact of aging on our identity, personal agency, and mental health, as part of HGO’s Seeking the Human Spirit and inspired by the opera Saul. This six-year, multi-disciplinary initiative, under the auspices of HGOco, explores universal spiritual themes raised in opera and expands and deepens Houstonians’ connections to opera and to art. Handel’s biblical oratorio Saul, running Oct. 25 – Nov. 8, is one of four 2019-20 mainstage productions connected with Seeking the Human Spirit that explores the theme of “identity” in profound and powerful ways.
Professionals on the panel include:

Dr. Matthias Henze, Professor and Founding Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Rice University
Dr. Robert Curt Peterson, Assistant Professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, staff Psychologist, Menninger Clinic
Juanita Rasmus, co-pastor at St. John’s United Methodist Church downtown
Dr. Carleen Graham, Director of HGOco- Moderator

The event is free, but registration is required.

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Photo credit: Bill Cooper

A Strike and An Uprising! (in Texas)
2019-10-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the documentary, “A Strike and An Uprising! (in Texas),” based in the telling of two events: the San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs with Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers, and housekeepers in 1987. Lewis explores both events in the same film, using the methods of oral history and by relating these stories strongly to contemporary ideas and events.
Anne Lewis is an independent documentarian whose work reveals working class people fighting for social change. Her mentors include Paul Falkenburg, Marcel Ophuls, and Marion Kraft. Marcel Ophuls and Marion Kraft were refugees from Nazi Germany. Anne was associate director and assistant camerawoman for Harlan County, U.S.A. She moved to eastern Kentucky and joined the Appalshop cooperative.
The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with Anne Lewis.
Admission is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

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The Book Thief
2019-10-17 14:30 - 16:45 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
In partnership with Gulf Coast Reads, Holocaust Museum Houston is celebrating libraries and the right to read throughout the month of October.
Join us for a free screening of, “The Book Thief.” Based on Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel, this film shares the magic of reading with audiences through the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living in Nazi Germany whose life is transformed by books.
To learn more about Gulf Coast Reads, visit www.gulfcoastreads.org.

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Jewish Book & Art Festival: Jack Fairweather & Bev Saltzman Lewyn
2019-11-05 19:30 | Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre
Authors Jack Fairweather and Bev Saltzman Lewyn will discuss their respective books. Fairweather’s The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz tells the incredible true story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis’ plans. Lewyn’s On The Run In Nazi Berlin: A Memoir is the story of her own father-in-law, Bert Lewyn.In Berlin, 1942, the Gestapo arrested 18-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending Bert to work in a factory making guns and his parents to their deaths. Bert went underground, surviving the terror, and immigrated to the United States in 1949.
Holocaust Museum Houston is a proud community partner for Jack Fairweather and Bev Saltzman Lewyn during the Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival.

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Artist Talk with Photographer Danny Lyon
2019-11-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
Photo: A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate, 1963
© Danny Lyon, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Photographer Danny Lyon will discuss his exhibition, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and his family history. His experience with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), would shape and dictate the course of his career. He has dedicated himself to chronicling social movements, working across mediums, including books, blogs, photography and documentaries. I am a realist, he writes, meaning I believe in the power of the camera, documents and reality.
A giant of post-War documentary photography and film, Brooklyn, NY native Danny Lyon helped define a mode of photojournalism in which the picture-maker is deeply and personally embedded in his subject matter. A self-taught photographer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, between arrests and police beatings, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions documenting the Civil Rights Movement.

Boniuk Library Book Club – “The Cooking Gene”
2019-11-07 09:30 - 11:00 | Boniuk Library
Explore your family’s culinary history with Boniuk Library Book Club.
On November 7, Boniuk Library book club is coming together for a book discussion and recipe swap, in honor of this month’s book “The Cooking Gene,” by Michael Twitty. In this illuminating memoir, culinary historian Michael Twitty traces his family history through the recipes and food culture of the old south.
Just in time for Thanksgiving we will be sharing our favorite family recipes and the stories behind them, so bring along a recipe and be ready to share your culinary history.

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