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The Holocaust

How to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah

How to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 26, 2022

This year The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum's commemoration of 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...

How the Holocaust survival story "The Survivor" was made into a movie

How the Holocaust survival story “The Survivor” was made into a movie

Published April 25, 2022

More than 80 years after the end of the Holocaust we are once again living in a time of rising antisemitism, and watching genocide happen, this time in Ukraine. These facts make it even more crucial that we continue to remember and pass down the stories...

Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?

Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?

Published April 25, 2022

(JTA) — When Season 2 of “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne’s sci-fi exploration of identity and trauma, dropped on Netflix Friday, it immediately became clear that teasers of the season’s Jewish content were not overblown. In the season, which...

Barry Levinson's "The Survivor" tells story of man who boxed to survive Auschwitz

Barry Levinson’s “The Survivor” tells story of man who boxed to survive Auschwitz

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 24, 2022

More than 80 years after the end of the Holocaust we are once again living in a time of rising antisemitism, and watching genocide happen, this time in Ukraine. These facts make it even more crucial that we continue to remember and pass down the stories...

Simon Igielnik (left) with his parents, Jack and Fela, during a 1995 family trip to Israel.

Documentary on Holocaust featuring St. Louis survivors re-airing Sunday

Jordan Palmer and Eric BergerPublished April 20, 2022

Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis. “All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...

St. Louis poet Jason Sommer retells his father's real-life story of Nazi brutality in new memoir

St. Louis poet Jason Sommer retells his father’s real-life story of Nazi brutality in new memoir

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 18, 2022

St. Louis author and poet Jason Sommer's father, Jay, is 98 years old and losing his memory. More than 70 years after arriving in New York from World War II-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the...

Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father in new Disney+ series

Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father in new Disney+ series

Published April 18, 2022

(JTA) — Jewish actor Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father Otto in a new Disney+ limited series, the latest dramatization of the Frank family’s harrowing life in hiding from the Nazis. The eight-episode miniseries, “A Small Light,”...

Tennessee Republican: Let the homeless be inspired by Hitler, whose life ‘got him in the history books’

Tennessee Republican: Let the homeless be inspired by Hitler, whose life ‘got him in the history books’

Rudy Malcom, The ForwardPublished 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,...

St. Louis Holocaust Museum, 16 others condemn 'War Crimes' In Ukraine

St. Louis Holocaust Museum, 16 others condemn ‘War Crimes’ In Ukraine

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished 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...

Canada set to outlaw Holocaust denial

Canada set to outlaw Holocaust denial

Published April 11, 2022

(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...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns filming interviews for "The Roosevelts" in 2014. (Daniel J. White/PBS)

Ken Burns’ next documentary is about the US response to the Holocaust

ANDREW LAPIN, JTAPublished April 11, 2022

(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...

Mimi Reinhard, Jewish secretary who typed up Schindler’s list dies at 107

Mimi Reinhard, Jewish secretary who typed up Schindler’s list dies at 107

Published April 11, 2022

(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,...

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