Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank
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 […]
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Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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Annelies: The Diary of Anne Frank
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterHolocaust 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 […]
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From behind the barbed wire: Uncaged Art from the Tornillo Childrens Detention Center
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterJoin 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. […]
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Community Art Workshop: Día de los Muertos
Holocaust Museum Houston Classroomoin 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 […]
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Boniuk Library Book Club — “The Library Book”
Boniuk LibraryThis 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 […]
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Boniuk Library Book Club — “The Library Book”
Boniuk LibraryThis 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 […]
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How Identity Ages
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterHouston 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 […]
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A Strike and An Uprising! (in Texas)
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TX1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TXEmma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Emma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Join 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 […]
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The Book Thief
Albert and Ethel Herzstein TheaterIn 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 […]
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Jewish Book & Art Festival: Jack Fairweather & Bev Saltzman Lewyn
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan TheatreAuthors 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 […]