"La Habanera" is the next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series, and will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Holocaust Museum's theatre in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive.Director...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
St. Louis attorney Michael Wetmore recalls watching his mother Trudy Hochster Wetmore quietly blessing his son in a German train station before the latter's departure to see a friend in Paris. "She turned around and said ‘The last time I was in this...
By Jennifer Rubin, Sophomore, Parkway Central
• Published December 14, 2011
One of the hardest, but most important parts of being a police officer is the training. Officers learn and participate in activities that include physical training, continuing education, driving tests, role-play and target practice. To become an officer,...
Jean Cavender, director of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) for the past seven years, has been selected as one of 12 women to be honored by the Hellenic Spirit Foundation (HSF) and the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL)...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 27, 2011
Stories from Rachel Goldman Miller's life - a life filled with much loss but also much love - are coming to a movie theater and a stage here next month. Miller, a native of France born to Polish parents, lost 93 family members in the Holocaust. She lost...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 25, 2011
Dr. Gustav Schonfeld, a survivor of the Holocaust who went on to a successful and admired career as a physician, professor and former head of the Washington University Department of Medicine, died Saturday, May 21, at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
Close to $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to 24 winners of the 9th Annual Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's annual Art and Writing Contest at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, at the Holocaust Museum Theater in the Jewish Federation...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2011
In the predawn hours of Sunday, June 22, 1941 millions of German troops accompanied by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles swarmed over the Soviet frontier and in doing so launched one of the largest invasions in the history of combat. Codenamed Operation...
Attention students in grades 6-12. Artist? Writer? Filmmaker? Get your creative juices flowing. Win great prizes by entering the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's Eighth Annual Art & Writing Contest. The deadline for entries is 3 p.m., Friday,...
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg free monthly film series will screen the St. Louis premiere of "Tzedek-The Righteous, Part One," at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 in the HMLC theater at the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building....
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 2, 2011
In a steady, even voice, 82-year-old George Spooner recalls the start of his last year of grade school in Austria - a year he wouldn't be allowed to complete. "Within a matter of a couple of weeks, my friends started showing up in short pants and brown...
"In Our Own Hand: the Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II," part of the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center free film series, will screen at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26, at the HMLC in the Jewish Federation...