By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 13, 2010
Have you read "Night"?The question surprised Eric Greitens for a moment. It's not an unusual query but one that held extra meaning coming from a 19-year-old English student in Kigali, Rwanda's war torn capital. The questioner explained that he had often...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 4, 2010
"Imagine This" is an original musical that juxtaposes the story of Jewish Resistance in the notorious Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust with the story of the Jewish Zealots at Masada in Israel 2,000 years earlier. The Zealots held off an entire Roman...
More than $3,000 in cash prizes were awarded to 26 winners of the Eighth Annual Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's Annual Art and Writing Contest. More than 600 entries from middle school and high school students throughout the bi-state area were...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 7, 2010
The unprecedented nature of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks shocked all Americans into the novel realities of a new and frightening world. But amidst the horror and disbelief, George Spooner found an emotion that contrasted sharply with the terrifying bewilderment...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 7, 2010
An internationally noted Shoah expert will deliver the keynote speech at the 15th anniversary dinner for the area's premier Holocaust educational institution. The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein will welcome...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 6, 2010
An internationally noted Shoah expert will deliver the keynote speech at the 15th anniversary dinner for the area's premier Holocaust educational institution. The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein will welcome...
The unprecedented nature of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks shocked all Americans into the novel realities of a new and frightening world. But amidst the horror and disbelief, George Spooner found an emotion that contrasted sharply with the terrifying bewilderment...
BY ROBERT A. COHN
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 1, 2010
Whitney R. Harris, the sole surviving member of the original prosecution team at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribual of Nazi figures in 1945, died Wednesday, April 21, 2010, of complications of cancer at his home in Frontenac. He was 97. Mr. Harris, a longtime...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 1, 2010
Rudy Oppenheim still gets Christmas cards from the neighbor who tried to murder him."We grew up together and we played together," recalled Oppenheim, now 81, of the childhood friend who showed up at the 10-year-old's door in Elmshorn, a small town outside...
Students in grades 6-12 are encouraged to get their creative juices flowing and enter the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's Seventh Annual Art & Writing Contest. Students can enter artwork, writing and film. The deadline for entries is by 3 p.m.,...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 12, 2009
Periodically, Daniel Reich would hear the same request. Could he assist a local family with an effort to honor an area Holocaust survivor during an upcoming bar or bat mitzvah? "Over the years, we had several successful connections made where a student...
BY JILL KASSANDER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 12, 2008
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein (HMLC) welcomed 21st century technology to the museum with their new interactive wall. Funding was provided by a gift from local survivor Guenter Goldsmith in memory of...
