By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 26, 2012
The St. Louis Jewish Community Archives, which operates within — and in cooperation with — the Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, is a treasure-trove of documents, artifacts and other information of Jewish life in St. Louis, dating back to 1807. ...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) recently opened a new exhibition, “Standing for Justice 1930-1950: Documentation from the St. Louis Jewish Community Archives,” which will run through the end of January. The exhibition, including...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center will open a new exhibition, “Standing for Justice 1930-1950: Documentation from the St. Louis Jewish Community Archives” from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. Batya Abramson-Goldstein, executive director...
A 65-inch interactive touch screen that offers modern examples of hate, discrimination and ethnic conflict is the newest exhibit to open in the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. The exhibition was done in partnership with the Anti-Defamation...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center is looking for Museum docents with good communication skills to lead tours for diverse groups – from middle-school children to older adults. This is an opportunity for volunteers interested in teaching...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 18, 2012
Ask Leo Wolf how many relatives he lost and the 91-year-old Creve Coeur man returns an answer simple enough to sum up what everybody should know about the Holocaust. “Enough,” he said. But thanks to Wolf, whose entire family vanished in the camps...
Hundreds of St. Louisans will mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at Congregation Temple Israel, #1 Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin Drive. Yom HaShoah memorializes the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. This...
A group of Holocaust-themed tapestries, one painting and one seriograph print, by the late St. Louisan Muriel Nezhnie, is currently on exhibit at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in the Jewish Federation Kopolow building, 12 Millstone...
A group of Holocaust-themed tapestries, one painting and one seriograph print by the late St. Louisan Muriel Nezhnie, is currently on exhibit at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in the Jewish Federation Kopolow building, 12 Millstone...
Students in grades 6-12 are encouraged to enter the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s Ninth Annual Art & Writing Contest. Deadline for entries is 3 p.m., Friday, April 20—no postmarks accepted. Winners will be notified by Friday, May...
"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...
