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The Holocaust

Pulitzer Prize winner kicking off Annual Staenberg Lecture series

Pulitzer Prize winner kicking off Annual Staenberg Lecture series

Published December 9, 2021

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson will be the first guest lecturer as part of a new partnership between Maryville University, philanthropists Michael and Carol Staenberg, and the Staenberg Family Foundation, and the  St. Louis Kaplan Feldman...

This St. Louisan survived the Holocaust not knowing she was Jewish

This St. Louisan survived the Holocaust not knowing she was Jewish

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust MuseumPublished November 30, 2021

In today’s story from the  Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, We tell the story of Felicia Graber, a St. Lousian who survived the Holocaust not knowing she was Jewish. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust...

This St. Louisan survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen

This St. Louisan survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special to the Jewish LightPublished November 24, 2021

In today's story from the  Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, We tell the story of Bess Fizel, a St. Lousian who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing...

Jewish leaders, Holocaust survivors livid over auction of Nazi prisoner stamps

HANAN GREENWOOD AND YORI YALON, JNSPublished November 2, 2021
The “extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt the “despicable sale.”
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