Mar 28, 2019 | Programs & Events
More than a half century after WWII at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story. Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and journalistic integrity, the...
Mar 5, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will feature “The Ritchie Boys,” a fascinating documentary telling the little-known story of Jewish refugees from Austria, Romania, and Germany who volunteer to fight the Nazis. Realizing their...
Feb 28, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
The second Gregor’s Violin recital comes March 17 with an added bonus: the opportunity to wish a happy 100th birthday to Szyfra Braitberg, Gregor’s wife. The ongoing exhibit tells the story of Gregor (z”l) and Szyfra’s struggle and survival during the Holocaust and...
Feb 27, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
“To Listen to a Witness Is to Become a Witness” and “Why We Speak” will be the themes 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....
Feb 8, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will present the 2014 documentary The Yatzkans, directed by Anna-Celia Kendall, for its February showing. “What to do with all of my mother’s stuff and that beat-up piano?” asks the filmmaker. In this...
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...
Feb 4, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2019 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 16th year that the annual...
Feb 1, 2019 | Programs & Events
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center will host an inspiring performance Feb. 17, when Tova Braitberg will play the violin that helped her grandfather survive the Holocaust. The first time Gregor Braitberg’s violin saved him from harm was in 1939 when they were...
Feb 1, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
The Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis has established a Task Force to renovate and expand the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC). This is a significant point in the future of the 25-year-old Museum as it will re-envision its role in...
Jan 25, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
Bais Abraham Congregation and the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center will present a screening of “The Good Nazi,” which tells the story of Major Karl Plagge, a Nazi officer who risked his life to save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. The film will be...
