(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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 17, 2022
Lisa Johnson says her internship at The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is nothing short of a labor of love.
"I’m learning through doing, and that doing is helping make history come alive in translation," said Johnson.
Johnson is an...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Morris Gutterman, a St. Louisan who survived living in Nazi-occupied Poland, 5 camps before being liberated by the British. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing us to republish portions of their...
Hanan Greenwood, JNS
• Published February 14, 2022
(Israel Hayom via JNS) The fight against the auctioning of Nazi artifacts took another turn over the weekend, as popular auction website “Bidspirit” announced a total ban on the sale of Nazi items. Any auction houses violating the ban will be removed...
Mark I. Pinsky, The Forward
• Published February 6, 2022
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Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man.
Whatever...
(JNS) The European Jewish Congress is asking the U.S-based publishing house HarperCollins to pull a book they said contains an “incendiary claim” that a Jewish notary told the Nazis where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during the Holocaust.
“In...
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...
