In the Feb. 18 issue of the Jewish Light, our Page 1 story told you everything you needed to know about the 31st annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which begins March 15. Nonetheless, we wanted to offer a friendly reminder about the...

  (JTA) — Vice President JD Vance made a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that failed to mention either Jews or Nazis, igniting further Jewish criticism of the vice president from both sides of the aisle. The...

  (JTA) — Hessy Levinsons Taft, a Jewish woman whose baby photo was selected in a competition to represent the Aryan race in Nazi Germany, died on Jan. 1 at 91. Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson,...

  As part of its monthly educational series, the Law Library Association of St. Louis, a public and membership law library located in the Cahill Courts Building (formerly known as the Civil Courts Building) in downtown St. Louis, is presenting...

Auschwitz was built to extinguish resistance: barbed wire, armed guards, industrialized murder. No one was meant to fight back, let alone survive. In 1944, Jewish prisoners defied that design. Guns weere smuggled piece by piece. Knives were forged...

Oskar Schindler was no saint. A womanizer, drinker, and opportunist who joined the Nazi Party for profit, he seemed destined for infamy — not heroism. But when the Nazis turned to mass murder, Schindler turned his cunning against them. Risking his...

This story is the first in a new series called "The Hidden Museum," which explores remarkable artifacts from St. Louis museums, pieces of history rarely seen by the public. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum holds more than 660 artifacts in...

(JTA) — Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his DNA. He also did not have the Jewish ancestors that some have claimed he had. New scrutiny as Hitler...

(JTA) — When Michael Smuss died last month at 99, an era of Jewish history came to a close. Smuss was the last known resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews rose up against their Nazi persecutors in one of the most dramatic...

(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, says it has reached a major milestone in its efforts to uncover the identities of all of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust, crossing the 5-million name threshold with the help of AI. That leaves...

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum has opened applications for the fall grant cycle of the Rubin and Gloria Feldman Family Educational Institute, which funds projects focused on the history and lessons of the Holocaust. Grants of up to $5,000...

(JTA) — A major European cosmetics firm has vowed to reexamine its Nazi-era history amid revelations that it benefited from gruesome human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. | RELATED: Coco Chanel was my idol until...