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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.,...
