• Resilience and Resistance During the Holocaust: Lessons for Today with Dr. Michael Berenbaum

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    Join us for a very special evening with Dr. Michael Berenbaum as he presents the Spector/Warren Fellowship Public Lecture: Resilience and Resistance During the Holocaust: Lessons for Today. Dr. Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University.  Dr. Berenbaum is also a writer, lecturer, and conceptual […]

  • Boris Lurie: Echoes of Memory

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this program featuring music from Ilana Zaks Nederlander, lecture from Stephanie Stebich, and recorded testimony. The evening will shine a light on the life and legacy of Boris Lurie who survived the Holocaust and went on become an artist, activist, and founder of the NO!art movement. 

  • “Passage to Sweden” Film Screening and Director Talkback

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater on the Mady and Ken Kades Stage

      Between 1940-1945 the sheer luck of where you were living made a world of difference to the Jews of Scandinavia.  For unique political and geographic reasons, the Scandinavian Jews of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark had very different experiences. During the German occupation, Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.  Defying the occupying […]