Jun 6, 2018 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The next film in the 2018 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be Run Boy Run, screening at 1:00 pm on June 24 in the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater at 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Films in this Sunday series are free and open to...
May 2, 2018 | Programs & Events
More than $2,500 in cash prizes will be awarded to 23 winners of the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center’s 16th Annual Art & Writing Contest at an awards ceremony Monday, May 14 at 7:00 pm in the Holocaust Museum Theater in the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. I was born in Vienna, Austria in the month of January in the fateful year of 1938. In March of 1938, Hitler and the Nazi army marched into the city, changing our lives forever. By...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. I have just spent the last year living through two difficult health issues. One was a car accident, when my own car ran over me and came to rest on my left leg, just above my knee....
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. Yesterday I went to a Sabbath service. It wasn’t just an ordinary Sabbath service. It was the first Sabbath of the Jewish New Year. It was the first Sabbath service I have attended...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. Aunt Rosa and my mother Berta were born one year apart. The two sisters lived together nearly all their lives. When the Nazis marched into Vienna, their native city, they were the...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. Aunt Rosa was my mother’s sister, and she lived with us most of my growing up years. I was the youngest member of our extended family, so I was home with Aunt Rosa while everyone...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. What next? What is next for me and my family? How much more can we endure? Those are the thoughts my mother may have had as we flew from Uruguay to the United States after World...
Apr 10, 2018 | Memory Project
The following story was written by Liz Lippa and shared as part of the Memory Project. The family photos of my early childhood were the substitute for my extended family of real people. There was no photo album . . . just a blue leather purse about the size of a small...
