Rudy Malcom, The Forward
• Published April 14, 2022
A Republican state senator in Tennessee cited Adolf Hitler in a legislative session Wednesday as an example of somebody who overcame poverty and achieved fame.
Arguing in favor of a bill that targets unhoused people camping on public property,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 12, 2022
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum joins Holocaust museums across the world to release a joint statement condemning Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
In response to the reports of mass graves and acts of brutality against Ukrainian citizens...
(JTA) — Canada is set to outlaw Holocaust denial, a move that has the backing of the governing Liberal Party government coalition and the opposition Conservative Party.
The CTV reported on Saturday that language adding Holocaust denial to the criminal...
(JTA) — For his next historical deep dive, famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is exploring America’s relationship to the Holocaust.
Tentatively titled “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the three-part miniseries set to air Sept. 18-20 on PBS...
(JTA) — Mimi Reinhard had studied literature and languages as an undergraduate before World War II. But it was a course in shorthand that saved her life.
Reinhard was imprisoned at the Plaszow concentration camp outside of Krakow when she was chosen,...
Ben Ferencz, 103, said he has worked his whole life for “a more humane and peaceful world, where no one would be killed or persecuted because of his race or religion or his political beliefs.”
This year’s Holocaust commemoration, Yom HaShoah 2022: Faith & Healing, will be presented on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 pm. As in past years, this program will honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate the community about the history...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Oskar Jakob a St. Louisan who survived five camps before being liberated by the British. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing us to republish portions of their Oral Histories Project, as a...
(New York Jewish Week) — Every Passover for the last 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first seder, which she hosts in her Upper West Side apartment building.
The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 18, 2022
In his 1998 best-seller, Tom Brokaw coined the phrase "The Greatest Generation" which created a well-deserved awareness, wonder, and appreciation of those Americans born in the 1920s. They were the Americans who, through their sacrifices, deprivation,...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 15, 2022
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Helena Schonfeld, a St. Louisan who concealed her Jewish identity, had contact with Dr. Josef Mengele, lived in multiple concentration camps before being liberated. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is...
(JTA) – When West Virginia lawmakers opened a discussion about proposed “critical race theory” legislation on Monday, it didn’t take long before topic of conversation turned to Jews.
West Virginia’s House of Delegates was debating legislation...
