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Plans for a New World-Class Holocaust Museum Announced
Lessons of History Must Never Be Forgotten The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center today commemorated its 25th year with the announcement of a new world-class facility. Holocaust survivors, local dignitaries and religious leaders gathered to unveil...
NEH awards Holocaust Museum & Learning Center with a $750,000 challenge grant
We are absolutely thrilled to share with you that the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center has been awarded a $750,000 challenge grant from prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities. Read the full press release from NEH here. On January 27, we will host an...
2020 Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will move to library in June
The Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series for 2020 begins Jan. 26 with “Who Will Write Our History,” the first of 11 films, which will include introductions and post-screening discussions on many issues important to the Jewish community. An...
Highly experienced and longtime museum executive named to lead Holocaust Museum & Learning Center
Longtime museum executive Sandra Harris has been named as the new Executive Director for the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC). Harris, who will start Jan. 13, 2020, comes aboard as the Museum celebrates its 25th year. After 30 years away, Harris returned...
Film explores controversial topic of Holocaust humor
The final 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series screening will take on the controversial topic of “Is the Holocaust funny?” The Last Laugh, directed by Ferne Pearlstein, looks at the taboo topic of humor, delving deep into pop-culture to find...
‘Forbidden Films’ examines power and danger of propaganda films
The Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series returns November 24 with “Forbidden Films,” a documentary examining the 1,200 feature films produced by Germany’s Third Reich. Nearly 70 years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films...
Nazi-hunter Eli Rosenbaum to discuss his ongoing work at Gale Family Lecture
Nazi-hunter Eli Rosenbaum will be the speaker for 2019 Arthur Gale Family Lecture. Eli Rosenbaum is the longest-serving prosecutor and investigator of Nazi criminals and other perpetrators of human rights violations in world history, having worked on these cases at...
The Children’s Forest
Editor’s note: Occasionally, HMLC will provide scholarship funds for students who are taking trips to further their education about the Holocaust. In return, we ask for a photo and an article about what impressed them the most about their trip. Yael Avni was one of...
Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series returns with ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’
The Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series returns Oct. 27 with “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe.” In 1936, Jewish author Stefan Zweig left Austria for South America to escape the specter of Nazism. This intense film charts his years of exile and...
Upcoming talk to remember fate of MS St. Louis passengers
Eighty years ago, in early June of 1939, the St. Louis, a passenger ship carrying 937 people – almost all of them Jews fleeing Nazi Germany – was denied entry into both Cuba and the United States. With no refuge in sight, the St. Louis was forced to sail back to...