Storybook Opera, Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope tells the true story of young Renée, whose love of music and memories of butterflies in her Hungarian childhood sustain her through the darkness of the Holocaust. With lyrical storytelling and vivid illustrations, this powerful story introduces young people to history through a message of […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for an intimate author talk in the Boniuk Library. Houston local Christian Bancroft is the author of A Ghost Has No Fantasies. "Through haunting poetry and prose, A Ghost Has No Fantasies illuminates the forgotten voices of LGBTQ+ individuals who suffered under Nazi persecution. Drawing from archival documents, survivor testimonies, and Gestapo files, Christian […]
This exhibition details the story of Naomi Warren (née Kaplan) and Arthur Tyler, an Oxfordshire Yeomanry soldier who helped liberate her from Bergen-Belsen. The exhibition showcases the letters Tyler wrote to help reunite Kaplan with family in Texas. Included in the exhibition will be highlights from the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum's Life Lines project, where artists were invited […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in the Boniuk Library for an afternoon discussion with local author Darlene Campos of her book The Center of the Earth. This historical fiction aimed middle grade and young adult readers, spins a historical fiction story based on interviews with Holocaust survivors who made their way to Ecuador. The "powerful, moving, and […]
Storybook Opera, Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope tells the true story of young Renée, whose love of music and memories of butterflies in her Hungarian childhood sustain her through the darkness of the Holocaust. With lyrical storytelling and vivid illustrations, this powerful story introduces young people to history through a message of […]
Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to present Resistance: They Fought Back as part of the Houston Jewish Film Festival. "We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths […]
Zikaron BaSalon, “Memories in a Living Room”, began in Israel in 2011 and has grown into a global movement. Houston’s Jewish community has been part of Zikaron BaSalon since 2017. Since then, each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, people open their homes to small gatherings where Holocaust survivors or their descendants share personal testimony in an intimate, respectful […]
The Texas Jewish Historical Society (TJHS) is pleased to announce a special afternoon program and film screening at Holocaust Museum Houston on April 25, 2026, presented as part of the TJHS Annual Gathering. The featured documentary, Grit & Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas, received grant support from TJHS. Admission to the film […]