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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...
Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series features Kirk Douglas in ‘The Juggler’
Kirk Douglas stars as Hans Muller, a former concentration camp inmate from Berlin, who immigrates to Israel in 1949 in “The Juggler,” the August selection for the 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series. This powerful film, produced by Stanley...
HMLC to Commemorate Tisha B’Av with Special Film Program
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center will screen a special film commemorating Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, Sunday, August 11, at 2 pm in the HMLC Theater (12 Millstone Campus Drive, 63146). This date in the Hebrew calendar marks the...
Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci star in this month’s Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series screening
Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series continues July 28 with Conspiracy. Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci star in this compelling drama about the Wannsee Conference. At this gathering on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the...