• Author Event | “A Blessing, Not a Burden” by Dr. Alex Kor

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

    By all accounts, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been a miracle. The son of two Holocaust survivors who narrowly escaped death, Alex grew up in Indiana — a state with […]

  • Gerald S. Kaplan Endowed Lecture: Antisemitism Today with Dr. Dave Rich

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture on contemporary antisemitism from one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject. Dr. Dave Rich has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community, and has advised the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, football clubs, political […]

  • Film Screening | Sabotage

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for our screening of the Noa Aharoni film, Sabotage. January 1945, less than two weeks before the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp evacuation, four forced laborer women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, and Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage tells the dramatic unknown story of the women’s […]

  • Film Screening | Sh’ma: A Story of Survival

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a film screening of Sh’ma: A Story of Survival, a moving and innovative dance film by Suki John, chronicles the journey of the director’s mother from school days to deportation, concentration camp to liberation, and finally immigration to the U.S. Sh’ma features a remarkable ensemble of 15 virtuoso performers, a haunting original score, […]

  • We The People: Freedom

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston as Apollo Chamber Players' We the People season concludes with an intergenerational conversation about freedom, democracy, and the future. While 20th century American icons Howard Hanson and Walt Whitman reflect the exquisite nuance of a democratic republic, we amplify the voices of the next generation’s creative leaders through collaborations with Houston's Kinder HSPVA.

  • Film Screening | A Real Pain

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the award-winning film, A Real Pain. Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Prior […]

  • Zikaron BaSalon: L’Dor V’Dor

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

    Zikaron BaSalon, meaning “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 […]

  • Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence

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

    Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Keynote Speaker Dr. Peter HotezWednesday, April 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Six sessions  The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An […]

  • Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived

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

    Join Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Here Lived. Artist Gunter Demnig started his Stolpersteine project in 1992. Now, more […]