Click the arrow on either side of the image above to watch the trailer for the film. Join Holocaust Museum Houston in celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month as we feature artists, scholars, and films that pay tribute to Indigenous Peoples' ancestry and traditions worldwide. Our final event highlighting Indigenous narratives features a virtual screening of […]
Creative young writers Calvin King, Norah Rami, Durmerrick Ross, Katrina Machetta, and Houston 2020 Youth Poet Laureate Madison Petaway will perform their own poetry in this live performance hosted by Outspoken Bean. Their poems will be inspired by Nelson Mandela’s struggle for freedom, the lessons of the Holocaust and the current racial justice movement in […]
Gregg Deal Join Holocaust Museum Houston in celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month as we feature artists, scholars, and films that pay tribute to Indigenous Peoples' ancestry and traditions worldwide. Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history and stereotypes. […]
Virtual Ticket: $5Premium Virtual Ticket and Book: $25Premium Virtual Ticket with Book and Lunch: $35Additional Lunch: $10 Tune in during your lunch hour as #1 New York Times bestselling author Ariana Neumann dives in to share the secrets of her father’s past: years he spent hiding in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in […]
At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf - and discovered a horrifying fact: her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List. Reviled as the "butcher of Plaszow," Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: if her […]
Cole Brown The Dismantling Bias: Antisemitism, White Supremacy, and Inequality Virtual Lecture Series explores the origins of racist ideologies and the construction of bias; examines the evolution and repercussions of antisemitism and white supremacy throughout history; and deconstructs the ways in which stereotypes, misconceptions, and prejudices shape contemporary society and culture. Led by renowned historians, […]
Filmmaker Anais Taracena Join Holocaust Museum Houston in celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month as we feature artists, scholars, and films that pay tribute to Indigenous Peoples' ancestry and traditions worldwide. Film Synopsis:During the war in Guatemala, the people who took refuge in the mountain created a health system as a way of survival in which […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen, for a Virtual Brunch with Holocaust Survivor 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 […]
The Indian South African anti-apartheid activist and youth leader, Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, was sentenced to life in prison during the Rivonia trial (July 1963). Over the period of his 26-year imprisonment on Robben Island and in the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Kathrada kept seven secret notebooks in which he recorded quotations that he admired from […]
The Indian South African anti-apartheid activist and youth leader, Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, was sentenced to life in prison during the Rivonia trial (July 1963). Over the period of his 26-year imprisonment on Robben Island and in the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Kathrada kept seven secret notebooks in which he recorded quotations that he admired from […]