Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 8, 2023
One year ago, St. Louis became a major hub of Holocaust awareness and education when the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum opened. The 36,000-square-foot facility began welcoming visitors on Nov. 2, 2022, following a 2½-year, $21 million renovation...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 4, 2023
Born just two months after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Sami Steigmann's family lived in Romania. By 1941, the 2-year-old Steigmann was living in a labor camp in Ukraine, where he was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments. At one point, Steigmann...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 2, 2023
Starting this month, the Jewish Light and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum are partnering to share stories about artifacts inside the museum, that may not necessarily be on display.
This month's artifact feature is a U.S. Army good conduct...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 10, 2023
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer born to a Jewish family in Brno in 1899. A prodigy, Haas produced his first formal composition by the age of 14. In 1938, his successful career was turned upside down with the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland, which eventually...
(JTA) – Newly uncovered documentation appears to confirm that Catholic convents and monasteries sheltered more than 3,000 Jews from the Holocaust following the Nazi takeover of Rome in 1943.
The papers, which have yet to be made public, were discovered...
By Emma Dent, Washington University
• Published August 31, 2023
Before Miriam Barr was an adult, she was a survivor. Born in 1937 to Jewish parents living in present-day eastern Ukraine, she was only a toddler when her father died. When Barr was four, the Nazis apprehended her and her mother and put them on a train...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published August 29, 2023
(JTA) — Claire Golomb was 10 years old and living in Frankfurt, Germany when, early one morning, there was a loud knock at the door.
Nazis had come to take her father away. She, her mother and her older sister soon fled to Holland, where they would...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 15, 2023
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum maintains a powerful mission – to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to reject hatred, promote understanding and inspire change. Weaved within this mission is the responsibility to ensure that...
Beth Harpaz, Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published August 14, 2023
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Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn used a recent speech to blame Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis,...
(JNS) When a young man wanted to go study with a great rabbi in Poland-Lithuania, his father balked since there was no money for a train and thieves would surely accost the boy as he walked. Better to stay home and read the rabbi’s books, the father...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 8, 2023
What the Holocaust means to a person can change after a visit to the Jewish Ghetto of Lodz in Poland or crossing under the "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the main gate of the Auschwitz I-Main Camp. One's understanding of what Jewish life was like in Krakow...
Roseanne Barr, the controversial Jewish comedian and former star of the working-class family sitcom Roseanne, denied the Holocaust and espoused other conspiracy theories on a recent episode of the podcast “This Past Weekend” hosted by comedian...
