Zikaron BaSalon, “Remembering in the Living Room” in Hebrew, is an initiative which started in 2011 with the goal to commemorate the Holocaust and its victims on a more personal and individualistic level. Focusing much more on survivors sharing their unique experiences and promoting conversation between survivors and those listening, Zikaron BaSalon distinguishes itself from […]
After surviving years of being forced to fight fellow inmates in death matches at Auschwitz, Harry Haft attempts to rebuild his life with what fragments are left. Plagued with survivors guilt and PTSD, Harry makes a small living by boxing in New York City following the Holocaust. In an attempt to find a lost lover […]
Project Shema is a training and support organization built by progressives to help the Jewish community and allies challenge anti-Jewish ideas. This training aims to deepen understanding across lines of difference by nurturing empathy for Jewish identity, traumas and lived experiences. In this workshop, participants will learn: How Jews understand their identity and history What […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, in tandem with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Love Gets a Room. Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Surrounded by starvation, cold, and threatening Nazis, one dilapidated theater is alive with Jewish actors and musicians putting on a musical comedy for a […]
SOLD OUT! Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a presentation from Dr. Ruth J. Simmons on her upbringing in Jim Crow-era Texas and how that affected her career in academia. A Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University and Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University on HBCU Initiatives, Dr. Simmons served as President of Prairie […]
American filmmaker Jake Paltrow revisits the 1962 trial of Adolf Eichmann with a gripping Hebrew-language historical drama centered on three Israeli characters on the periphery of Eichmann’s last days: a precocious Libyan immigrant boy, a Moroccan prison guard and a Polish Holocaust survivor working for the prosecution. With Eichmann relegated to the background, the trio’s […]
In the spring of 1942, the Nazis ordered the Slovak government to send a slave labor force and received 999 teenage, Jewish girls. Their railway ticket was a one-way trip to Auschwitz. First-time Director/Producer and author of the international best-selling book, 999, Heather Dune Macadam spent eleven years interviewing survivors of the first transport all over […]
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 ToursSaturday, March 9 at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.Sunday, March 10 at 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.Monday, March 11 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.Tuesday, March 12 at […]
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection. This program will present collaborative works by Joseph Bologne, William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, and Houstonian jazz pianist and composer, Brooke Wyatt. The DACAMERA Young Artist program is a fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, vocalists and […]
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. This new research is based on a broader definition and countless hitherto untapped sources, including local police and court records as well as video testimonies of survivors. […]