This year’s Holocaust commemoration, Yom HaShoah 2023: Voices of Resistance, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 16 at United Hebrew Congregation. As in past years, this program will honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate...
Flora Cassen, Washington University in St Louis
• Published March 16, 2023
Growing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my grandparents married during the Nazi occupation. It was not a time for celebrations, particularly for Jewish families like theirs. Naively, though, they thought marriage would protect them from being...
(JTA) – A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s circulation last month, in the latest example of books with Jewish themes getting swept up amid a...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum announced the opening of the spring funding cycle for the Rubin and Gloria Feldman Family Educational Institute to promote Holocaust education. Interested individuals and organizations can apply for funds...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 6, 2023
Artifacts are tangible pieces of history that can tell a unique, often personal, story. Nearly all of the artifacts at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum have been donated by survivors, their descendants, veterans and others since the museum...
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published February 28, 2023
(JTA) — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to distort the history of the Holocaust, their research went viral.
Most academic articles are seen by dozens...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 26, 2023
Artifacts are tangible pieces of history that can tell a unique, often personal, story. Nearly all of the artifacts at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum have been donated by survivors, their descendants, veterans and others since the museum...
TAIPEI (JTA) — Ho Feng-Shan, the Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna who helped thousands of Jews escape from Europe during World War II, never met Adolf Eichmann.
But in “Night Angels,” a novel based on his life, Feng-Shan comes face to face...
Jewish News Service, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published February 13, 2023
(JNS) Los Angeles-based nonprofit, If You Heard What I Heard, is proud to announce the release of Josh Gad’s interview as part of its digital storytelling collection to preserve Holocaust memory and make it relatable for today. Gad’s interview is...
Amit Naor, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published February 12, 2023
This story is published here in partnership with the National Library of Israel.
Imagine a typical workday that went something like this: you wake up, drink your morning coffee, and leaf through the local newspaper. Then you shower, dress and head...
WASHINGTON (JTA) –– During the 35 years Eli Rosenbaum spent hunting Nazis, he always looked up to his forebears in the profession. But it was only recently, as he ventured into Ukraine to track down Russian war criminals, that he felt a personal connection...
(JNS) Irmgard Kroymann (1921-2005) was renowned as a heroine who was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia. Following the Second World War, she became a trade union leader known as a vigorous defender...
