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The Holocaust

Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan holding a yellow star identification badge that Jewish people were forced to wear by the Nazis

Holocaust survivor shares her story and a message of hope with St. Louis audience

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished November 11, 2024

Trapped in Nazi Germany, Marion Blumenthal Lazan and her family sought refuge in Holland, only to be captured and sent to the Westerbork transit camp and later the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her 1996 memoir, “Four Perfect Pebbles,”...

The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in the  Kristallnacht pogroms, Nov. 9-10, 1938. (Wikimedia Commons)

When the Nazis attacked synagogues on Kristallnacht, they were targeting Judaism’s heart and soul

Michael Berenbaum, JTAPublished November 7, 2024

(JTA) — Eighty-six years ago this week, a series of pogroms took place in Germany and Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned, their pews destroyed; sacred Torah scrolls and holy books were set aflame. More than 7,000 Jewish businesses were...

St. Louis Holocaust Museum launches study to gauge visitor impact

St. Louis Holocaust Museum launches study to gauge visitor impact

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished October 24, 2024

Have you visited the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum recently? If so, the museum wants to learn more about your experience. In partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Skokie Museum, the St. Louis museum is conducting...

A display of copies of Adolf Hitler's book “Mein Kampf.” Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Hitler is trending on TikTok again — and they’re trying to make him seem like a nice guy

Published September 22, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Hitler is, once again, trending on TikTok. Speeches given by the Nazi Führer, translated into English and read...

Darryl Cooper (left) is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on an episode of Carlson's show on X, Sept. 2, 2024. Cooper, a self-proclaimed "historian," argues that Hitler and the Nazis didn't intend for the Holocaust to happen. (Screenshot)

On X, Tucker Carlson hosts ‘historian’ who says the Nazis didn’t mean for the Holocaust to happen

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished September 4, 2024

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson used the latest episode of his online talk show to interview a self-proclaimed “historian" and Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper, who promoted falsehoods about the Holocaust. The episode of Carlson’s eponymous show...

A postcard from the turn of the century showing the Jewish neighborhood of Rhodes. History & Art Images via Getty Images

Remembering the Jews of Rhodes and their long journey to Auschwitz

Devin Naar, University of WashingtonPublished August 8, 2024

In the Old Town of Rhodes, a picturesque tourist destination in the Aegean Sea, stands a monument to a dark period in the island’s past. In the former “Djuderia,” the Jewish quarter, a marble obelisk commemorates the deportation of the island’s...

Darryle Clott, at the Midwest Consortium of Holocaust Educators

Why educators are flocking to the St. Louis Holocaust Museum

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 30, 2024

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is considered a special resource by a key group of educators: those who specialize in teaching about the Holocaust. The Midwest Consortium of Holocaust Educators organized a tour of the museum on Wednesday,...

Mission Possible: St. Louisans needed to create 600 butterflies honoring six million Holocaust victims

Mission Possible: St. Louisans needed to create 600 butterflies honoring six million Holocaust victims

By Kathleen Lees, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 25, 2024

Recent workshops at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum have a marked meaning for Klara Livshits, a native of Ukraine who moved to the United States in 2009. The ongoing summer event, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims,”...

Israeli drama ‘June Zero’ spotlights three true stories about Eichmann trial

Israeli drama ‘June Zero’ spotlights three true stories about Eichmann trial

Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 11, 2024

"June Zero,” a captivating historical drama set in Israel in 1961-1962, tells the true stories of three Israelis with different connections to the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the mass murder of Jews. Each of the stories is told...

Yitskhok Rudashevski

Discover the lost diary of a Holocaust teenager from your home in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished July 11, 2024

You may not know his name, or his diary, but just like Anne Frank's written words, Yitskhok Rudashevski’s writings stand as a powerful testament to the voices of teenagers lost in the Holocaust. Rudashevski was not just a teenager; he was a gifted...

St. Louis family fights to reclaim art stolen by the Nazis decades ago

St. Louis family fights to reclaim art stolen by the Nazis decades ago

By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 8, 2024

ST. LOUIS — When Vera Emmons was growing up in suburban Chicago, the topic of family art treasures stolen by the Nazis was hardly at the forefront of her life. She knew her mother, Gerda Nothmann, had survived concentration camps and made it...

Credit: Holocaust Museum Houston

‘600 Butterflies’ project taking flight at Holocaust Museum

Published June 24, 2024

Starting July 1, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will begin a new, free art workshop entitled, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims.” Butterflies have long been a symbol of the children murdered during the Holocaust....

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