You can enter the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum’s new “Nazis Next Door” exhibit expecting to find uniforms, propaganda and photographs of men who made their allegiance obvious. One of the exhibit’s most unsettling stories, however,...

Unpacked is the #1 Jewish educational media brand for today’s digital generation, presenting insightful, inspiring and nuanced content around Israel, Judaism and all things Jewish. More at unpacked.media More than two decades before Rabbi Naftali...

This story was originally published by the Jewish Women’s Archive, and is repurposed here with permission. Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American photographer whose work considers myth, performance, memory, and lineage. She holds an MFA from Virginia...

  When people think about Auschwitz, one name often comes to mind: Josef Mengele. Known as the "Angel of Death," Mengele became infamous for conducting brutal medical experiments on prisoners, particularly twins. His name has become synonymous...

  For decades, Nathan Hilu filled sketchbooks with frantic drawings from memory. His pages were crowded with handwritten notes, swirls of color, courtroom scenes, military uniforms and repeated images connected to his time as a young Jewish...

  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...