Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary sharing her hopes and dreams. Meet Renia’s younger sister Elizabeth Bellak who survived the Holocaust and has preserved Renia’s legacy of beauty and love. This program is available in person (included in […]
This free public program is available to experience in-person at Holocaust Museum Houston and online via Zoom. All times are listed in Central Time. Dr. Peter Hotez is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. He is perhaps most well-known for keeping Houston and the nation up to date on the […]
It's often said that the winners write the history. Most times, the winners are also the landowners. Landowners control the narrative of the property they own. Who owns the land where your ancestors are buried? Join Holocaust Museum Houston and Convict Leasing & Labor Project (CLLP) for a Juneteenth roundtable with grassroots activists and scholars […]
In his newest book, Dr. Avinoam Patt examines the heroic saga of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, analyzing how the revolt was mythologized in a way that captured the attention of Jews around the world, allowing them to imagine what it might have been like to be there, engaged in the struggle against the Nazi oppressor. Soon after […]
Sabri Atman Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the third lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with Sabri Atman, the founder and the director of the Assyrian Genocide Research, SEEYFO CENTER. Sabri Atman is and Assyrian who was born in Nsibin (Tur Abdin) in southeast Turkey, moved to Austria due to political reasons, and […]
Left: Dr. Christopher Carmona; Right: "El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American Experience of Land Theft, Lynching, and Resistance" book cover Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the second lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with Dr. Christopher Carmona, author of El Rinche Vol 2. Revolución-The African American and Mexican American […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the first lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with the author of Plunder, Menachem Kaiser. Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in […]