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...
Kirk Douglas stars as Hans Muller, a former concentration camp inmate from Berlin, who immigrates to Israel in 1949 in “The Juggler,” the August selection for the 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series. This powerful film, produced by Stanley...
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center will screen a special film commemorating Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, Sunday, August 11, at 2 pm in the HMLC Theater (12 Millstone Campus Drive, 63146). This date in the Hebrew calendar marks the...
Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series continues July 28 with Conspiracy. Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci star in this compelling drama about the Wannsee Conference. At this gathering on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the...
The 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series returns June 30 with Remember, a suspenseful and poignant film about a Holocaust survivor struggling with dementia, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau. In this powerful film, a Holocaust...
During a weekend in May, more than 160 Jewish motorcyclists from across the U.S., Canada, Israel and Australia rode to St. Louis to raise money for the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. The Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance’s signature event, called Ride2Remember,...
More than $2,500 in cash prizes will be awarded to 24 winners of the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center’s 17th Annual Art & Writing Contest at an awards ceremony Monday, May 13, at 7 pm in the Holocaust Museum Theater in the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’...
Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Docent Irl Solomon is the subject of a new book entitled Making a Difference: The Story of Irl Solomon & The Difference One Teacher Made in the Schools of East St. Louis, talking about his career as a teacher. The Museum will...
“To Listen to a Witness Is to Become a Witness: Why We Speak” will be the theme for the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, May 5, at 4 pm. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts of the Shoah from survivors and witnesses. Featured...
Congregation Temple Israel and the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center are bringing seven-time Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner to town for a concert reading of The Soap Myth on Thursday, May 2. The Soap Myth takes place more than a half-century after the end of...
