This free public program is available to experience in-person at Holocaust Museum Houston and online via Zoom. All times are listed in Central Time. Dr. Peter Hotez is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. He is perhaps most well-known for keeping Houston and the nation up to date on the […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with Más Que Tres in our second annual Día De Los Muertos Community Workshop. Participants at this family-friendly event will have an opportunity to learn about creating an altar with Indigenous and Christian elements, creating a shadow box dedicated to a deceased loved one, and making paper flowers out […]
Amy Spitalnick – Executive Director of Integrity First for America America is grappling with a crisis of violent, white supremacist extremism. There are flashpoints like Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, El Paso, the Capitol insurrection, and Buffalo – and they go hand-in-hand with the broader normalization of extremism and unraveling of democratic norms. Join Amy Spitalnick – Executive […]
Holocaust Museum Houston, The Center for the Healing of Racism, and Texas Tribal Buffalo Project invite you to an in-person presentation about efforts around rematriation of Texas Indigenous land and communities, reconnecting and rekindling kinship. A facilitated dialogue will follow the presentation. Lucille Contreras is the CEO and Founder of Texas Tribal Buffalo Project. Bio: This project is […]
All times are listed in Central Time. Holocaust Museum Houston is a proud Community Partner for this event. Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will discuss her book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. In this remarkable collection of essays, Horn presents a unique perspective on modern-day antisemitism. Drawing on her extensive research, she […]
Axiom Quartet, Holocaust Museum Houston and Consulate General of Poland join forces to present a powerful and intriguing program of chamber music written by Polish and Polish-born composers. Experience the rarely heard string quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg and Mark Nowakowski, along with the colorful impressionist work by Karol Szymanowski: Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartet No 5 […]
In this 90-minute online exploration of stories from Ukraine, Centropa will share user-friendly resources for teaching about Ukraine in the 20th and 21st centuries, which include: Centropa’s interviews with over 200 elderly Jews in Ukraine, conducted 2000-2009; old family photographs from before, during, and after the Holocaust from those interviewees; short multimedia films based on […]
Join Brave Little Company, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Montrose Center for, “Our Stories Belong: Rainbow Storytime for ALL of Houston’s Kids.” Our Stories Belong is a free, in-person book club packed with creative activities, ideal for families with kids aged 5-10. A boy who wants to be a mermaid? A girl who wants to […]
Mark Toubin, ADL Southwest Regional Director Holocaust Museum Houston’s Moving Forward Lecture Series kicks off with a presentation and discussion with Mark Toubin, ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) Southwest Regional Director. Learn more about the rise of antisemitism, how it manifests in our community, and strategies to respond.
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a talented Berlin-born artist who was murdered at Auschwitz, while four months pregnant, at the age of 26. Her main body of work, a sequence of […]