Feb 19, 2020 | Programs & Events
Join celebrated composer/lyricist and performer Jeremy Schonfeld for an intimate conversation and performance of selections from his groundbreaking concept-album-turned-multimedia rock opera “Iron & Coal” on March 22 at the J’s Staenberg Family Complex...
Feb 14, 2020 | Programs & Events
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2020 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students from around the country to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. Entries must...
Feb 3, 2020 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
Oscar-winning director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “13 Minutes” is the February selection for the 2020 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series. This award-winning film traces the true story of Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbrönn who, after becoming...
Jan 27, 2020 | News, Programs & Events
Lessons of History Must Never Be Forgotten The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center today commemorated its 25th year with the announcement of a new world-class facility. Holocaust survivors, local dignitaries and religious leaders gathered to unveil...
Jan 6, 2020 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series for 2020 begins Jan. 26 with “Who Will Write Our History,” the first of 11 films, which will include introductions and post-screening discussions on many issues important to the Jewish community. An...
Dec 11, 2019 | Programs & Events
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...
Dec 9, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
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...
Nov 5, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
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...
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...
Oct 11, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
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...
