Category: History
3 Ways to Confront Dehumanizing Language
Confronting Dehumanizing Language: Impact, Consequences, and Responses Dehumanizing language is more than words — it’s a dangerous force eroding empathy and fueling discrimination in society. From political discourse to everyday interactions, its...
Bracelet unearthed 60 years after the Holocaust, donated to the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum
Survivor Ben Fainer, who died in 2016, created the bracelet while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp A long-lost bracelet made by Holocaust survivor Ben Fainer has completed its epic journey from a Nazi concentration camp to the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust...Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture to Honor Holocaust Rescuer with St. Louis Ties
This year’s Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture will put a spotlight on a little-known story of Carl Lutz, a former St. Louisan who saved more than 50,000 Jews from the Nazis. The program will take place virtually at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, and is...
The Pogrom of November 9th and 10th, 1938
By: Dan Reich, Curator & Director of Education On the night of November 9, 1938, violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Nazi officials justified the riots as a “spontaneous”...