Anna Strishkowa knew she was a Holocaust survivor, but she knew little else about her life. Strishkowa is an 84-year-old microbiologist from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1943 she was registered as a prisoner at Auschwitz. She was eventually liberated...

  Benjamin Gurman was about 6 years old when a young refugee girl named Sandra came to live with his family in University City. She arrived during World War II as a Holocaust survivor, part of the wave of Jewish children displaced by the war...

  More than 400 people gathered for the 2026 Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance on Sunday, April 12. The solemn ceremony was held at Congregation B’nai Amoona. The theme of this year’s program was “Where do I go; to whom do I belong.” The...

  On April 15, inside a lecture hall at Washington University, the audience will gather to watch a film about a philosopher who spent much of her life making people uncomfortable. That was never accidental. More than 60 years after Hannah...

  I was clicking around the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum website on Tuesday, March 31, working on an idea for June, when the museum will mark 20 years of its Memory Project. The project preserves the writing of local Holocaust...

  Walter “Wally” Mayer, a Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran, is now officially a centenarian. Mayer, one of the Wallys who built Jewish St. Louis, was the center of attention at the Jewish Community Center on March 28 at a party...

In 1966, about 1,000 people gathered at Temple Israel in Creve Coeur to hear a Danish doctor explain how he helped save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Nearly 60 years later, that story is being told again through a new pop-up display in the...

Holocaust survivor Henia Lewin was just a toddler when her life became a story of hiding, survival and improbable reunion. On Monday, March 23, she brings that story to Washington University, offering Jewish St. Louis a chance to hear firsthand testimony...

In a black-and-white photograph taken in Kobe, Japan, in August 1940, a group of young Jewish students — refugees carrying everything they owned — walks down a street with suitcases. Near the center of the image, one of them holds an umbrella. That...

  JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczców,...

  This story starts with a lecture at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Two weeks ago, Kent Hirschfelder was in the audience as David Marwell discussed his book, “Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death,” and his experience...

I’ve learned something about going to history lectures. If I walk in cold, without knowing much or anything, I spend the first 20 minutes trying to orient myself. If I walk in with even a little context, I actually enjoy it. That’s how I’m approaching...