Jordan Palmer and Harley Hammerman
• Published June 5, 2022
Erich Dahl, Age 102, of Creve Coeur, Missouri was born on February 29, 1920 in Geilenkerchen, Germany and passed away on June 1, 2022.
Growing up in Germany
Dahl and his two sisters lived in Germany near the Belgium border. Their father was a cattle...
On May 7, 2022, Holocaust survivor Gerda Cole attended her 98th birthday party. The recreation room at Revera Kennedy Lodge Long Term Care Home in Toronto, where Gerda lives, was decorated in blue — her favorite color — and she wore a crown and...
Today, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum announced a $1 million dollar pledge from the Tilles Foundation to support the Museum’s new Impact Lab. The Tilles Foundation is a private foundation “dedicated to finding the most effective...
Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published May 11, 2022
As a boy growing up in Mainz, Germany, Luigi Toscano was fascinated by World War II. But he was frustrated by a lack of detail about a dark period in the country’s history: the Holocaust. His history teacher offered little information, and his textbook...
(JTA) – Jewish and antiracism groups in Mexico are raising alarm after a couple married in a Nazi-themed wedding there last week.
The wedding of the couple, who have been identified only by their first names, Fernando and Josefina, took place in...
(JTA) — Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has criticized remarks by his country’s foreign minister, who suggested that the worst antisemites were Jewish and that Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
Lazar’s forthright criticism of Foreign Minister...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2022
"Many documentaries exist about the Holocaust. However, few have taken such a unique approach to telling these horrific stories."
In remembering something so life-changing and tragic, yet hopeful and connective in its actions and impact, doing...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 27, 2022
(JWA) - After a career spent telling other people's stories, Eleanor Reissa has finally uncovered her own. In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 26, 2022
On this, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), we honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate the community about the history and lessons of the Holocaust. One such story has become a book, which will be released later this summer. "The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
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...
(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...
