All times are in Central Standard Time. Join Holocaust Museum Houston, Centropa, and the Holocaust Center for Humanity for a free webinar for teachers. Through this interactive webinar, educators will learn how to teach about memory and the memorialization of historic events; engage students in a geography-based approach around what the Holocaust was and how […]
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a talented Berlin-born artist who was murdered at Auschwitz, while four months pregnant, at the age of 26. Her main body of work, a sequence of nearly 800 gouache images entitled Leben? or Theater? (Life? or Theatre?) and created while seeking refuge in the South of France, is an ambitious fictive […]
In this 90-minute online exploration of stories from Ukraine, Centropa will share user-friendly resources for teaching about Ukraine in the 20th and 21st centuries, which include: Centropa’s interviews with over 200 elderly Jews in Ukraine, conducted 2000-2009; old family photographs from before, during, and after the Holocaust from those interviewees; short multimedia films based on […]
All times are listed in Central Time. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a special presentation by Christina Chavarria, Program Coordinator, Education Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the experience of Tony Acevedo, a devoted American despite his Mexican heritage discrimination. He was among more than 500,000 Latino men and women who served in the […]
All times are listed in Central Time. In this hour-long program, poet, writer and performer Jasminne Mendez will share poems and a brief history commemorating the 85th anniversary of the 1937 Haitian Massacre which occurred along the northwestern border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti during the Trujillo Era. These poems and her work seek […]
All times are listed in Central Time. Holocaust Museum Houston kicks off Latinx Heritage Month with author Julissa Arce who will discuss her newest book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case For Rejecting Assimilation. Julissa Arce is a writer, activist, and social changemaker. She is the nationally best-selling author of My (Underground) American […]
All times are listed in Central Time. ”Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was an activist, novelist, educator, lawyer, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest. Black, queer, and gender nonconforming, Murray worked passionately to […]
Morris and Linda Penn Hy Penn weaves a remarkable tale of survival and hope as he takes us on the journey of his parents and maternal grandmother from eastern Europe to Texas. His mother Linda, and grandmother Riva, survived 9 different camps including Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. Morris, his father, escaped being shot by […]
All times are listed in Central Time. The Kalefs, one of the Belgrade's oldest families, traced their roots back more than 300 years. Then the Nazis swept into Serbia in 1941. While relatives were being shot and gassed, Dona Bat Kalef fled with her two daughters, Breda and Matilda, to a Catholic church. "Can you […]
Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred, hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach. The goal of the […]