Holocaust Museum of Houston

Address:5401 Caroline St.
Houston, Texas
Tel: (713) 942-8000

The Holocaust Museum of Houston is dedicated to education, remembrance, and honoring the survivor's legacy. Since 1996 the museum has educated on the effects of hatred, prejudice, and apathy. Since its inception, children and adults alike from over the world have left notes, poems, art, and other gifts, a true tribute to the life-changing feelings this unique place provokes.

The Museum's main permanent exhibit - Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers - focuses on the stories of living Holocaust survivors living in the Houston Metropolitan area. You will be taken through it all beginning with life before Nazism, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the process of how daily life was transformed into gruesome segregation and imprisonment in the camps. Film reels, photos, documents, artifacts, and text panels collected from by-standers, rescuers, and liberators will truly move you. Be sure not to miss the film entitled Voices, a compilation of verbal testimony from the local survivors.

A 1942 railcar, the type responsible for carrying millions of Jews to their deaths, was introduced to mark the 10th anniversary of the museum and a special exhibit showcases a very rare and poignant collection of children's shoes recovered from the Majdanek concentration camp.

The Holocaust Museum of Houston also houses fascinating temporary exhibits which further explore the topics presented in the permanent exhibit, encouraging visitors to study the Holocaust in greater detail and from a variety of perspectives.

Take a moment for contemplation, reflection, and meditation in the Lack Family Memorial Room, featuring the Wall of Remembrance, the Wall of Tears, and the Wall of Hope. A quiet garden known as the Eric Alexander Garden of hope is dedicated in memory of the children who perished in the Holocaust.

You can get to The holocaust Museum of Houston by taking the South Freeway and heading west on the Southwest Freeway. Exit at Main St. and head south. Make a left on Calumet St. and another left on Caroline St. The museum is just up the street on your left.