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The Holocaust

What reading the names of Holocaust victims means to me

What reading the names of Holocaust victims means to me

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 24, 2025

For the past several years, I’ve sat at a table in a conference room of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum and read the names of Holocaust victims aloud for 15 minutes. It’s only 15 minutes—a fleeting moment compared to the immeasurable...

Until Jan. 1, 2025, public access to the Central Archives of the Special Administration of Justice (CABR) was limited. (Wikimedia)

Netherlands not shy about exposing suspected Nazi collaborators

JTA StaffPublished January 2, 2025

A massive trove of documents about suspected Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands is now open to the public for the first time. For the past seven decades, only researchers and relatives of those accused of collaborating with the Nazis could access...

Shalom Nagar

The guard who hanged Adolf Eichmann, passes away at 88

By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished December 4, 2024

Israel has carried out the death penalty just once, when Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced in 1962 to death by hanging. “We placed the rope on his head. I pressed [a handle] and he fell downward,” Shalom Nagar, the guard who carried...

St. Louis Holocaust Museum launches study to gauge visitor impact

St. Louis Holocaust Museum launches study to gauge visitor impact

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished October 24, 2024

Have you visited the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum recently? If so, the museum wants to learn more about your experience. In partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Skokie Museum, the St. Louis museum is conducting...

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