HMLC screens St. Louis premier of ‘The Port of Last Resort’The first film in the 2016 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be “The Port of Last Resort,” screening at 1 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Holocaust Museum and Learning...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 30, 2015
Elisabeth (Liz) Newman Lippa, a Holocaust escapee and survivor who produced a documentary on St. Louis survivors, died Friday, Dec. 18, after a battle with cancer at age 77. An active volunteer with the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center of St. Louis...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 16, 2015
Naomi Mazur Silvermintz, longtime volunteer and life member of numerous local Jewish organizations, died Thursday, Dec. 10. She was 92 and a longtime resident of greater St. Louis.Mrs. Silvermintz was born in East St. Louis on Dec. 7, 1923, the daughter...
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center will feature the exhibit, “An Odd and Improbable Tale: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai,” from Dec. 10 to March 6. A special opening program and reception will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, at the HMLC, located...
The exhibit “They Risked Their Lives—Poles Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust,” currently on view at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC), will run through Sunday, Nov. 22. A special program and reception will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday,...
Ella Schmidt speaks at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's 20th Anniversary gala Aug. 20. Video by Video Views Inc. (http://www.videoviews.com).
Holocaust survivor Gloria Feldman speaks at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's 20th Anniversary gala Aug. 20. Video by Video Views Inc. (http://www.videoviews.com).
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 12, 2015
Sarijane Freiman of Clayton still recalls the childhood memory of standing in a Famous-Barr department store and seeing a woman with numbers tattooed on her arm.“I remember asking my mother why she would do that, at which point my mother explained what...
A reception and dinner this month will highlight the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s 20 years of serving the community.According to Dan Reich, education director and curator at the HMLC, the gala event will be held Thursday, Aug. 20 at the Ritz-Carlton...
Nearly 900 students from middle schools and high schools throughout the bi-state area submitted pieces to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s 13th annual Art and Writing Contest. The 33 winners will be honored at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m....
By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 15, 2015
While it is tempting to dismiss Adolf Hitler and the Nazis of the Third Reich as deranged bigots, it is a matter of chilling historical fact that the Nazis were immensely skilled in the area of propaganda. All too skillfully, they used all available media...
“Liberation and Survival: Where do I go now?” will be the focus of Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April 19. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts of the Shoah from survivors and witnesses. The program will also...
