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...

(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...

When the first draft of Deuteronomy was penned in the seventh century, Judah was an independent power again after a century of Assyrian rule. Optimism reigned. This is why the easily predictable but totally unexpected destruction of Jerusalem by the...

Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Jewish scholars and intellectuals who focused on the study of all aspects of Jewish life decided to ensure Jewish history, language, traditions and religious culture were preserved for generations. The result was the establishment...

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...

(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...

The ‍trailer ‍was ‍released ‍for ‍the ‍upcoming ‍biopic ‍‍Maestro ‍about ‍composer ‍and ‍conductor ‍Leonard ‍Bernstein. ‍Controversy ‍has...

Aug. 17, 1898 — Russian Zionists Hold First Conference A few weeks before the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 160 Russian Zionists meet secretly in Warsaw, where organizer Ahad Ha’am rallies support for a Jewish cultural renaissance...

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...