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 […]
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 […]
Through Their Eyes is a project that Sandy has been very instrumental in creating. It involves the second generation and/or others who knew a Holocaust survivor in the telling of their parents' or friend's survival stories. Using excerpts of her father's recorded testimony, together they will tell his story of growing up in Germany under […]
The Lacks family has enthralled audiences across the country by talking about their mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Henrietta Lacks, and her transcendentally important contributions to science. The internatonal success of Rebecca Skloots New York Times bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has let people keenly interested in the Lacks family and Henriettas legacy. Henrietta […]
Mandela with a raised fist, moments after his release from prison (after 27 years) on February 11, 1990.Photograph by Graeme Williams Explore Mandela: Struggle for Freedom, a rich sensory experience of imagery, soundscape, digital media and objects, explores the earthshaking fight for justice and human dignity in South Africa – and its relevance to issues of […]
Author and historian Dr. Dwight Watson will discuss his book, Race and the Houston Police Department 1930-1990. In Houston, as in the rest of the American South up until the 1950s, the police force reflected and enforced the segregation of the larger society. When the nation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s, this […]
In celebration of Black History Month, Holocaust Museum Houston will host a one-night screening of the highly acclaimed 2016 documentary film, “13th.” Synopsis: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African Americans. The title of Ava DuVernay’s […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
The Hungarian Holocaust constitutes a very special chapter of the Holocaust. Although it took place very close to the end of World War II, with deportations starting in May 1944, […]