Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published May 11, 2022
As a boy growing up in Mainz, Germany, Luigi Toscano was fascinated by World War II. But he was frustrated by a lack of detail about a dark period in the country’s history: the Holocaust. His history teacher offered little information, and his textbook...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2022
"Many documentaries exist about the Holocaust. However, few have taken such a unique approach to telling these horrific stories."
In remembering something so life-changing and tragic, yet hopeful and connective in its actions and impact, doing...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 26, 2022
On this, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), we honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate the community about the history and lessons of the Holocaust. One such story has become a book, which will be released later this summer. "The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 24, 2022
More than 80 years after the end of the Holocaust we are once again living in a time of rising antisemitism, and watching genocide happen, this time in Ukraine. These facts make it even more crucial that we continue to remember and pass down the stories...
Jordan Palmer and Eric Berger
• Published April 20, 2022
Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis.
“All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Morris Gutterman, a St. Louisan who survived living in Nazi-occupied Poland, 5 camps before being liberated by the British. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing us to republish portions of their...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 19, 2022
At a secluded villa on Berlin’s Wannsee lake, 15 senior Nazi officials came together on January 20th, 1942. The 15 had been invited for a conference by SS General Reinhard Heydrich, who was appointed by Adolf Hiter to prepare for the Final Solution...
Noga Tarnopolsky, Forward
• Published October 7, 2021
Babi Yar may be the world’s deepest whodunit: Who killed some 34,000 Jews in just 48 hours on September 29 and 30, 1941, in this unexceptional park 15 minutes from downtown Kyiv?
And who proceeded to murder a total of 100,000 people in this leafy...
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...
Anne Frank trending on Twitter is rarely a good thing. From January to May this year, Black Hammer, which calls itself a “revolutionary organization” working for “all colonized people worldwide,” tweeted monthly statements condemning the most...
The St. Louis Kaplan Holocaust Museum, SPecial for the Jewish Light
• Published August 17, 2021
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...
