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 and audio testimony from American pianist Carolyn Enger’s godmother and her father (both labeled Mischling, Grade A by the Nazis) with the music of composers […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin shares his testimony. Between 1939 and 1945, Orlin and his family lived on the run. The eldest son of Sender and Sonia Orlinski, he was seven years old when German troops invaded Poland and occupied his hometown of Brok. The Jewish residents were forcibly marched to […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her story. Ruth and her sister Lea lived in Sinsheim, Germany when Hitler came to power. The family was deported to the Gurs interment camp in 1940, and their mother was faced with a very difficult decision: to let a Jewish philanthropic organization called Oeuvres de […]
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s younger sister Elizabeth Bellak who survived the Holocaust and has preserved Renia’s legacy of beauty and love. This program is available in person (included in […]
Tickets include parking fees and entrance to a reception with light bites and strolling magicians. Reception 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this special evening with magician Richard Hatch. He will share with us the story of the German Jewish amateur magician and magic historian Guenther Dammann and the […]
In addition to his evening lecture, Richard Hatch will perform a magic show for families during Spring Break. Although Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, he finds it easier to break the laws of nature than to discover them. A childhood interest in magic became a lifelong obsession, and he […]
Visitors interested in a docent-led experience can join one of the many drop-in tours throughout Spring Break. Tours are subject to availability. English Drop-In ToursTuesday, March 11 - Friday, March 14 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pmThursday, March 13 at 11:00 am, 2:00 pm and 3:00 pmSaturday, March 15 at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm and […]
Meet and Greets are an opportunity for prospective volunteers to visit the Museum and hear firsthand from current volunteers about their experiences with the Volunteer Program. Interested prospective volunteers can apply online and then attend a brief interview with the Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager. This is done to establish basic expectations and explain the […]
Explore the Museum's galleries and featured exhibitions, Houston Survivor Series: Liberation and Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920, at no charge with free admission presented by The Village of River Oaks.
In early 1930’s Soviet Ukraine, the regime of Josef Stalin ran a genocidal campaign of starvation against the rural peasant class. With the intention to both collectivize Ukraine’s rich agricultural industry, as well as wipe out the Kulak class, food was withheld from millions of civilians in the countryside, leading to one of the worst, […]