Jordana Horn, Kveller
• Published January 28, 2022
Two weeks ago, a school board met in Tennessee and unanimously decided that Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel “Maus” should be banned from the eighth grade curriculum due to “profanity” and “nudity.” Spiegelman, a cartoonist,...
Lev Golinkin, The Forward
• Published January 27, 2022
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Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust...
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, nations around the world honor the six million Jewish victims of the...
Organizers at the Illinois Holocaust Museum chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 for the official rollout of their new cutting-edge virtual-reality Holocaust experience, titled “The Journey Back.”
The growing volume of lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is neatly matched by the complacence about or support for contemporary Jew-hatred.
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 25, 2022
As we move closer to the re-opening of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum this summer, work continues on the museum's permanent exhibit.
The permanent exhibit
The new permanent exhibit at the museum will educate visitors on the history of...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 25, 2022
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, ChaiFlicks will be offering six complimentary films on the platform to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The six movies, 5 features, and one documentary were...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 19, 2022
At a secluded villa on Berlin’s Wannsee lake, 15 senior Nazi officials came together on January 20th, 1942. The 15 had been invited for a conference by SS General Reinhard Heydrich, who was appointed by Adolf Hiter to prepare for the Final Solution...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Erika Schick Goldburg, a St. Louisan's whose life could indeed be made into an epic movie, similar to “Europa, Europa,” or “Sunshine,” the latter of which depicted a Hungarian Jewish family going through...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 20, 2021
The St. Louis Jewish Light has partnered with the Imperial War Museum's to give you an opportunity to view a special exhibit entitled: Artists Responses To The Holocaust
The artworks here explore a range of reactions to the Holocaust – from the deeply...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Leslie Ilies, a St. Louisan who survived a Nazi death march as Russians drew near. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing us to republish portions of their Oral Histories Project, as a celebration...
