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...
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...
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...
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”...
On October 5, 1938, Nazi Germany’s Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all Jewish passports in Germany. The move was taken in response to a request not from within Germany, but from Switzerland. In response to Nazi persecution in the 1930’s, Jews...
