Category: Lectures

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum to Host ‘Why This Matters’ Speaker Series

Jul 13, 2021 | Lectures, Programs & Events

Series will include programs on antisemitism, Holocaust education, media literacy, and the Museum’s ongoing expansion  (St. Louis, July 8, 2021) – Today, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum announced a series of upcoming virtual programs entitled, “Why...

Nazi-hunter Eli Rosenbaum to discuss his ongoing work at Gale Family Lecture

Oct 24, 2019 | Lectures, Programs & Events

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...

Upcoming talk to remember fate of MS St. Louis passengers

Sep 10, 2019 | Lectures, Programs & Events

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...

Annual Gale Lecture will look at Holocaust in Poland and Polish ‘History Laws’

Feb 8, 2019 | Lectures, Programs & Events

Dr. Jan Grabowski will discuss the complicity of the Polish “blue” policemen in the persecution and murder of Polish Jewry during the Annual Gale Lecture, scheduled for Sunday, March 10, at the Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Dr. Grabowski will also...

Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture Will Focus on Jewish Heroism During the Holocaust

Oct 5, 2018 | Lectures, Programs & Events

Profiles of valor among Jews during the Shoah as well as the circumstances and characteristics that enabled this courage will be the subject of the Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. at the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. Rabbi...

Chief curator of POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews to speak here

Sep 6, 2018 | Lectures, Programs & Events

The chief curator of the Core Exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews will visit the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center on Thursday, Oct. 11, for a presentation on the role of museums in historical debates. Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett...

“Voices of the Generations” presented by the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center and Congregation Shaare Emeth

Jan 24, 2018 | Lectures, Programs & Events

“Voices of the Generations” will be the focus of a lecture by Julie Kohner on Thursday, February 22 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Shaare Emeth. Julie Kohner’s presentation, Voices of the Generations, teaches about the Holocaust through its impact on one...

“Why? Explaining the Holocaust” to be Subject of the Annual Gale Family Lecture Sponsored by the HMLC

Nov 10, 2017 | Lectures, Programs & Events

“Why? Explaining the Holocaust” will be the focus of the fourth annual Marilyn* and Arthur Gale Family Lecture (*of blessed memory) on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 7:00 pm, at St. Louis County Library (1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., 63131). As witnesses to the...

HMLC and Aish St. Louis Presents the Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust”

Apr 5, 2017 | Lectures

“Cartoonists Against the Holocaust” will be the topic of the Annual Rubin Feldman Memorial Lecture on Monday, May 8 at 7:00 pm at the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. Some were Pulitzer Prize-winning muckrakers. Some were the targets of racist mobs....

HMLC Presents “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields”

Feb 15, 2017 | Lectures

“Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” will be the topic of a lecture presented by Dr. Wendy Lower on Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 pm at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. Drawing from wartime documents, postwar trials, private...