St. Louis Diaspora is a Jewish Light series about people who started in St. Louis and went on to do interesting things elsewhere and the hometown that helped shape them. By the time students reach the interactive testimony room, something...

  Inside a small glass case at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum are several postcard-sized drawings once connected to one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous antisemitic exhibitions. The images are crude, exaggerated and deeply...

  At 3:47 Monday morning, May 11, my phone buzzed with a text from retired St. Louis broadcaster John Pertzborn. “Visiting Leipzig, Germany synagogue talking with rabbi’s wife,” he wrote. A few moments later came another message. “Mostly...

HOUSTON, Mo. — When Luigi Toscano was growing up in Germany, he was frustrated by how little he learned about his country’s role in World War II atrocities. That experience led him to create “Lest We Forget,” a Holocaust awareness project that...

I have never lived alone. I’ve never even lived with only my partner, at least not for all that long. We’ve always had roommates. And that means we’ve always had roommates’ stuff. Honestly, I’ve loved this. I mean, I’ve had my issues...

  More than 200 members of the community celebrated the opening of “Lest We Forget,” a large public art installation created by German Italian filmmaker and photographer Luigi Toscano. The exhibit at The District in Chesterfield features...

Houston, Mo. — population 2,080 — in South Central Missouri is notable as the birthplace of the circus performer Emmett Kelly. From April 23 through May 4, Houston High School will be the site of a pilot education program associated with the “Lest...

  Anna Strishkowa knew she was a Holocaust survivor, but she knew little else about her life. Strishkowa is an 84-year-old microbiologist from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1943 she was registered as a prisoner at Auschwitz. She was eventually liberated...

  Benjamin Gurman was about 6 years old when a young refugee girl named Sandra came to live with his family in University City. She arrived during World War II as a Holocaust survivor, part of the wave of Jewish children displaced by the war...

  More than 400 people gathered for the 2026 Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance on Sunday, April 12. The solemn ceremony was held at Congregation B’nai Amoona. The theme of this year’s program was “Where do I go; to whom do I belong.” The...

  On April 15, inside a lecture hall at Washington University, the audience will gather to watch a film about a philosopher who spent much of her life making people uncomfortable. That was never accidental. More than 60 years after Hannah...

  I was clicking around the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum website on Tuesday, March 31, working on an idea for June, when the museum will mark 20 years of its Memory Project. The project preserves the writing of local Holocaust...