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2020

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Community Gathering | Dogwood Houston

CANCELED: Downward Dog for a Cause

09:30 – 10:45 am

Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professional group, NEXTGen, invites you to Downward Dog for a Cause at Dogwood Houston. Join us as instructors from YogaWorks leads us ...

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Houston Jewish Film Festival | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Film Screening - "Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever"

07:30 – 09:00 pm

Russian-born poet Avraham Sutzkever is, by many accounts, the greatest Yiddish writer of modern times. He wrote with wit, passion, and vitality through the darkness of the Holocaust, and led the Paper...

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Survivor Talk | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Sunday - Ruth Steinfeld

02:00 – 03:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Ruth Steinfeld shares her testimony. November 9, 2018 marked the 80th anniversary of the November Pogrom known as Kristallnacht. During the November...

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Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Bill Orlin

01:00 – 02:00 pm

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 s...

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Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Chaja Verveer

01:00 – 02:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as survivor Chaja Verveer shares her testimony. Chaja was born in Maarsbergen, Holland in 1941, after Germany had occupied the country. When she was just one year old, Ch...

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Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Charles Kurt

01:00 – 02:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Charles Kurt shares his testimony. As soon as the Nazis entered Austria in March 1938, they began to terrorize and humiliate the Jews. They forced Charles's mother...

Spring Break | Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom

CANCELED: Butterfly Workshop

02:00 – 04:00 pm

In 1996, “The Butterfly,” a poem written by Pavel Friedmann in the Terezin Concentration Camp, inspired Museum staff and supporters to create the Butterfly Project, facilitating a connecti...

Spring Break | Eric Alexander Amphitheater

CANCELED: Acoustic Afternoon

02:30 – 04:30 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as local music trio Left On Lockwood takes the stage as the debut performance in the new Eric Alexander Amphitheater. A mixture of folk, blues and soul, ba...

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Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Bill Orlin

01:00 – 02:00 pm

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 s...

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Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Dr. Anna Steinberger

01:00 – 02:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Holocaust Survivor Dr. Anna Steinberger shares her testimony. Germany attacked Poland in September 1939, when Anna was 11 years old. As bombs fell, Anna and her parent...

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Spring Break | Holocaust Gallery

CANCELED: Lunch & Learn Drop In Tours

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join one of Holocaust Museum Houston’s prestigious Docents as they guide you through a one of a kind interactive educational experience. The tour features the Morgan Family Welcome Center and th...

Spring Break | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

CANCELED: Survivor Talk - Chaja Verveer

01:00 – 02:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as survivor Chaja Verveer shares her testimony. Chaja was born in Maarsbergen, Holland in 1941, after Germany had occupied the country. When she was just one year old, Ch...

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Opening Reception | Mincberg Gallery

Exhibition Opening: "The Book Smugglers"

06:00 – 08:30 pm

Join the Museum for a special first look of The Book Smugglers, featuring special guest David E. Fishman. The exhibition curated by HMH’s Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and b...

GHJGS Meeting | Board Room

CANCELED: Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society Meeting

07:00 – 08:30 pm

Discover how libraries can save the world and your research project at the March GHJGS meeting, where we will explore the mission and resources of Holocaust Museum Houston’s Boniuk Library. Join...

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Lecture | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

The Restitution of Nazi-looted Art and What Remains to Be Done with Stuart Eizenstat

06:30 – 08:00 pm

During World War II, some 600,000 paintings were stolen or displaced. Much of the interest in providing belated justice for victims of the Holocaust and other victims of Nazi tyranny during World...

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Genealogy Workshop | Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom

Discovering My Story: Family Tree DNA Event

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Work with DNA testing experts, known as genetic genealogists, to learn how DNA research can help you discover your personal story and to connect to ancestors whose stories might ha...

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Book Event | Boniuk Library

Boniuk Library Book Club - "The Book Smugglers"

09:30 – 11:00 am

Discover the book that inspired Holocaust Museum Houston's upcoming exhibition of the same name. In this special meeting of Boniuk Library Book Club, we’re going behind the scenes to ex...

Performance | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

ROCO Connections: We Were the Music

06:00 – 08:00 pm

The chamber concert will feature the premiere of two of Bruce Adolphe’s triptych of commissions for oboe, cello, and piano."We Were the Music" is inspired by and dedicated to...

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Book Event | Boniuk Library

Boniuk Library Book Club - "The Book Smugglers"

05:30 – 07:00 pm

Discover the book that inspired Holocaust Museum Houston's upcoming exhibition of the same name. In this special meeting of Boniuk Library Book Club, we’re going behind the scenes to ex...

February

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Survivor Talk | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

Survivor Sunday - Chaja Verveer

02:00 – 03:00 pm

Join Holocaust Museum Houston as survivor Chaja Verveer shares her testimony. Chaja was born in Maarsbergen, Holland in 1941, after Germany had occupied the country. When she was just one year old, Ch...

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