By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 9, 2021
When Sharon Berry was reviewing her emails in July 2018, she paused at one from the organization that oversees a memorial at the former Buchenwald concentration camp and thought, “This must be a sick joke,” she recalled recently.It was about a bracelet...
This year’s Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture will put a spotlight on a little-known story of Carl Lutz, a former St. Louisan who saved more than 50,000 Jews from the Nazis. The program will take place virtually at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, and...
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will host a Facebook Live event with author Rebecca Erbelding, who will discuss her book, "Rescue Board: The United States War Refugee Board and the Holocaust." The...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published November 15, 2020
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum held a virtual groundbreaking today for its new $21 million facility on the Millstone Campus near Creve Coeur.The new building, which the organization hopes to open in mid 2022, will also operate under a different...
As the news broke recently, my phone started lighting up with messages and texts decrying the ignorance of our nation’s young people. In case you missed it, a study found that fully 36% of Millennials and Gen Z believe that fewer than 2 million Jews...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published July 20, 2020
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center executive director, who started in the position six months ago, has resigned.Sandra Harris began working for the museum in mid-January and leaves as the organization prepares for a two-story, $18 million museum...
Join celebrated composer and performer Jeremy Schonfeld for an intimate conversation and performance of selections from his concept-album-turned-multimedia rock opera “Iron & Coal” on March 22 at the Jewish Community Center’s Arts & Education...
In 1960, when Mossad agent Peter Zvi Malkin led a team to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Malkin’s cover was as a tourist. As part of the cover, Malkin brought his own pastels, colored pencils, dry watercolors and oils. He also carried a South...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 27, 2020
On Monday, officials at the 25-year-old Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) announced plans to triple the size of the museum, located on the I.E. Millstone campus at the northwest corner of Lindbergh Boulevard and Schuetz Road. The expanded...
The 2020 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series begins Jan. 26 with “Who Will Write Our History,” the first of 11 films, which will include introductions and post-screening discussions on many issues important to the Jewish community. In...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 16, 2020
A couple of big developments have taken place at institutions on the I.E. Millstone Campus near Creve Coeur. For starters, the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, which is scheduled to undergo significant renovations and an expansion after...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 30, 2019
As Julie Williams speaks about her volunteer work, the message emblazoned on the wall behind her at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center says as much as she can about why she does what she does. “Change begins with me,” it reads. “This is...
