BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 30, 2014
Rudolf Oppenheim, a Holocaust survivor and longtime docent at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, died July 24, 2014. He was 85, and a longtime resident of University City who had been battling pancreatic cancer. Mr. Oppenheim, a familiar...
More than $2,800 in cash prizes will be awarded to 28 winners of Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s 12th annual Art and Writing Contest at an awards ceremony Monday, May 12, at 7 pm, in the Holocaust Museum theater in the Jewish Federation Kopolow...
The communitywide Yom HaShoah Commemoration, “Bearing Witness for Those Who Cannot: Testimony From the Holocaust,” will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at United Hebrew Congregation, 13788 Conway Road.The program will feature eyewitness accounts...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 26, 2014
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s Sunday Film Series will highlight a fascinating but little-known story of the rescue of 1,300 Jews during the Holocaust — including one survivor who now lives in St. Louis — which brought them from Europe...
The deadline for the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s Art and Writing Contest for middle and high school students is April 17. Entries must be received by the museum no later than 4 p.m. April 17; postmarks will not accepted, and HLMC will be...
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for its annual Art and Writing Contest, which asks creative middle and high school students to express themselves about the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the...
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center has established the Gloria and Rubin Feldman Family Education Institute, which will allow the museum to build on its programming and expand its educational objectives.Gloria and Rubin (z”l) Feldman have a long...
Israel Unger, Holocaust survivor and author, will read from his book “The Unwritten Diary of Israel” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center theater in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive....
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 13, 2014
An impassioned address by an ex-congressman and civil rights pioneer marked the start of a new exhibition, “Standing for Justice II,” at the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building Sunday afternoon.“We were sick and tired of being sick and tired,”...
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2014 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 12th year that...
When Suzanne Tanner met St. Louisan Rachel Goldman Miller, both women embarked on what Tanner calls a “destined” journey. One stop along the way: the St. Louis performance of “Beyond Me: A Song Cycle in the Key of Survival,” which celebrates Miller’s...
The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series is a remarkable documentary about a woman who rescued her Jewish neighbors. “No. 4 Street of Our Lady,” which will screen at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 in the Holocaust Museum’s...
