Join GHJGS this December for the ultimate Jewish holiday celebration: We will reminisce how, once again, someone tried to destroy our ancestors, over plates of wonderful food based on recipes that have been passed on from one generation to another… Our evening will start with a presentation from Charlie Burns, GHJGS member, who has been documenting […]
Join us for a one-day Holocaust 101 education workshop for teachers. Educators will learn how to approach the subject of the Holocaust in the classroom. The workshop will use Holocaust Museum Houston’s galleries to introduce the Holocaust and will provide a variety of resources to utilize in the classroom. Topics include the long and short term causes […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is honored to present Community Changemakers: Join the Conversation Breakfast featuring Dolores Huerta on Friday, December 6th from 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. At 89 years of age, Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a living civil rights icon. She will speak about her […]
The Remuh Synagogue in Krakow, Poland. Photo courtesy of Polish National Tourism Board. Learn more about the Museum’s upcoming trip to the Lithuania and Poland. Some highlights from the trip include: Take an in-depth tour of Vilnius’ old Jewish Quarter, including the beautifully restored Choral Synagogue, the Holocaust Museum, and the cemetery where the most […]
Start the year off right by joining Boniuk Library Book Club. Whether your new year’s resolution involved getting more informed, trying new things, joining a social group, or just reading more- we can help! Join us on January 9 for a discussion of Antonio Iturbe’s, “The Librarian of Auschwitz.” With Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, […]
Start the year off right by joining Boniuk Library Book Club. Whether your new year’s resolution involved getting more informed, trying new things, joining a social group, or just reading more- we can help! Join us on January 9 for a discussion of Antonio Iturbe’s, “The Librarian of Auschwitz.” With Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, […]
In partnership with DACAMERA Young Artists, Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals’ group, NEXTGen invites you to the “Their Music Endures” concert. Join us for a networking reception to meet and mingle with socially conscious individuals like yourself then enjoy the works of Karel Berman, Erwin Schulhoff, and Ilse Weber, three Czech composers whose creative spirits […]
“Singing Our Way to Freedom” is a multilayered look at the life of San Diego Chicano musician, composer and community activist, Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez. Borrowing from musical traditions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Chunky uses music and humor as powerful weapons in fighting for social justice. From his humble beginnings as a farmworker […]
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 […]
40 min | Documentary, Short | 2017 (USA)Director, Drey Kleanthous Join Holocaust Museum Houston and AJC on International Holocaust Remembrance Day for a virtual screening of the film, “Life Will Smile.” “Life Will Smile” narrates the untold story of the humanism and bravery of the Greek civil society in the small, southernmost Ionian island, where—with […]