By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
• Published January 23, 2023
(JNS) In recognition of this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem is set to unveil on Thursday an installation at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims....
Each year on January 27, the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet soldiers. This year, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is planning a weekend-long...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published January 19, 2023
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When you call your film The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, you’re announcing a judgment less measured...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Rudolf Oppenheim a St. Louisan whose family in 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht and his father’s release from a concentration camp, fled Germany. Because there were few countries that permitted Jews...
By Baila Brackman, Chabad.org/news
• Published January 5, 2023
Time is vitally important, especially when it comes to helping someone in a critical situation.
Living on the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago, it had been decades since Jakob had been in contact with organized Jewish community life, which is...
KultureCity has partnered with the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum to make the Museum and all of the programs and events that the venue hosts to be sensory inclusive. This new initiative will promote an accommodating and positive experience...
Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 1, 2022
This story is being published in partnership with the National Library of Israel. All photos courtesy of Yad Vashem Art Museum, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Jewish Museum in Prague.
I was born in Israel in 1950, and named after my father’s first...
BY CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA
• Published November 30, 2022
(JTA) — A plaza in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood has been named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust but spent the rest of his life as a social pariah.
“This small...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained,...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 22, 2022
The world’s largest decentralized memorial commemorates the lives of people deported by the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. The Stolpersteine Project was conceived by German artist Gunther Demnig. It consists of 75,000 stolpersteine (stumbling...
Adam Kloppe, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
On November 20, 1945, some of the most important trials of the 20th century began in Nuremberg, Germany. Known as the Nuremberg Trials, the cases brought against 24 of the most prominent surviving Nazis captured the attention of the world as legal...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
Earlier this month, on the eve of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a major Holocaust remembrance exhibit at Washington University came to an end. The “Lest We Forget” exhibit was a series of portraits of survivors photographed by the noted Italian-German...
