As a young boy growing up in St. Louis, metal sculpture artist Dale Dicker, 74, was surrounded by many family members who survived the Holocaust. His grandfather, Joseph Barg, saw the rise of Nazism early on and successfully got his wife Yetta's family...

Food can be a vehicle for telling stories, connecting with people, and understanding our history—including the uncomfortable parts. In this episode of Can We Talk?, Jen Richler heads to Charleston, South Carolina to learn about Southern Jewish history...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Photos of pro-Palestine rallies in the U.S. since the outbreak of the war often feature a group of Orthodox Jewish men,...

In 1989, then Washington University Chancellor William H. Danforth created the Holocaust Memorial Lecture series. Since then, the series has been held annually on or near the date of Nov. 9, the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms in Nazi Germany. The...

In a powerful statement issued on the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is labeling the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel as a "pogrom," drawing chilling parallels between the darkest chapters...

(JTA) — Nov. 9 marks several historical anniversaries in Germany, including Adolf Hitler’s failed putsch in 1923 and the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. But the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 eclipses them all, in terms of public significance. In Germany...

(JTA) — The comparisons are easy to draw: broken glass, burned buildings, shuttered businesses, dead Jews. Eighty-five years after Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish riots that marked a brutal turning point in the Nazi campaign of persecution in Germany,...

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...

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...

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...

Israeli authorities have identified the remains of Dov Broder, who was killed in action during the War of Independence 75 years ago, the military announced on Sunday. In 2006, the IDF’s Missing Persons Unit began an investigation to identify the remains...

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...