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Holocaust Museum Gets Grant for Education Institute

The Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded a grant in the amount of $6,677 to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in support of a four-day education institute in July 2014 titled “Using Testimony to Teach the History of the Holocaust.”  The MHC is the only...

Nominations Open for JProStl Peer Recognition

JProStl, the association dedicated to supporting professionals working at Jewish organizations in St. Louis, is now accepting nominations for the 9th Annual Peer Recognition Awards. The awards honor those who exemplify professional excellence and dedication to their...

Lory Cooper

Lory Cooper learned from the experience of her grandparents that the highest level of tzedakah is helping someone help themselves. Cooper’s grandparents, Simon and Bobbie Kohn, were Holocaust survivors who came to St. Louis after World War II with nothing. Federation...

Holocaust Museum Event Focuses on One Family’s Holocaust Story

Sunday, August 18, 4pm at Congregation Shaare Emeth Dramatic reading of letters serves as an artistic witness Gerda Nothmann Luner was the only immediate member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Her parents, grandparents, sister and the Dutch foster family she...

Ruth Lehrman

When Ruth Lehrman was a young mother, the preschool at the Jewish Community Center was a lifesaver. New to St. Louis, Ruth had come from Atlanta, where she had been unable to find daycare or preschool for her daughter, Tanya, then 3. Ruth, who was attending St. Louis...

Myrna Meyer

On Dec. 6 2012, Myrna Meyer, Chair of “Change Begins With Me,” helped to launch the new high-tech interactive exhibition in the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. She vows that the exhibit, which portrays contemporary hate, discrimination and ethnic conflict,...

Kent Hirschfelder Named Chair of the STL Holocaust Museum

Since 2000, he’s been involved with HMLC serving in several roles. Find out what in his family history piqued his interest in the Holocaust. Kent Hirschfelder (Olivette) has been named Chair of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. He has been involved...