KultureCity has partnered with the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum to make the Museum and all of the programs and events that the venue hosts to be sensory inclusive. This new initiative will promote an accommodating and positive experience...
Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 1, 2022
This story is being published in partnership with the National Library of Israel. All photos courtesy of Yad Vashem Art Museum, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Jewish Museum in Prague.
I was born in Israel in 1950, and named after my father’s first...
BY CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA
• Published November 30, 2022
(JTA) — A plaza in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood has been named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust but spent the rest of his life as a social pariah.
“This small...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained,...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 22, 2022
The world’s largest decentralized memorial commemorates the lives of people deported by the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. The Stolpersteine Project was conceived by German artist Gunther Demnig. It consists of 75,000 stolpersteine (stumbling...
Adam Kloppe, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
On November 20, 1945, some of the most important trials of the 20th century began in Nuremberg, Germany. Known as the Nuremberg Trials, the cases brought against 24 of the most prominent surviving Nazis captured the attention of the world as legal...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
Earlier this month, on the eve of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a major Holocaust remembrance exhibit at Washington University came to an end. The “Lest We Forget” exhibit was a series of portraits of survivors photographed by the noted Italian-German...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 14, 2022
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Holocaust Center (which became the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center In Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein in 1995 and is now the St. Louis...
By Charles Klotzer, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2022
My Bar Mizvah in Berlin, Germany, was scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 1938. However, the night of November 9 lasting through November 10, Nazis launched a night and day of terror attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria.
The Nazi’s attacks...
By Frances Levine, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2022
I grew up in Bridgeport and Fairfield, Conn. surrounded by father’s family — the Levines. My grandmother Anna and my grandfather Isaac Levine lived across the street from my elementary school, and right next to the candy store. I saw them nearly...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 1, 2022
Earlier this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conferred its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on the Ritchie Boys, a little-known special World War II U.S. military intelligence unit that included many Jewish refugees from Nazism...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 1, 2022
Among the myriad Holocaust narratives we tell, which almost always end in tragedy, the fate of the passengers on the MS St. Louis exerts a particular hold on our imagination.
Of course, it does. The juxtaposition of strong, conflicting emotions —...
