Beautiful Sunset

Aug 8, 2013 | Memory Project

This story was written by Felicia Lederberger-Bialecki-Graber and shared as part of the Memory Project.       It is 1956, and I am sixteen years old. It is a beautiful spring evening. I am walking in downtown Frankfurt, Germany . It is rush hour and the streets are...

Critically acclaimed film “The Believer” to Screen at HMLC

Aug 5, 2013 | Film Screenings

 The next film in the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be a critically acclaimed psychological examination into the forces of intolerance, both on the individual and society as a whole. The Believer...

Lory Cooper

Jul 23, 2013 | News

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

Jul 2, 2013 | News

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...

Video: Thank You, Barry

May 1, 2013 | News

2013 Annual Holocaust Remembrance to Feature “Voices from the Holocaust”

Mar 16, 2013 | News

Sunday, April 7, 4pm Congregation B’nai Amoona Watch a live-stream of the event by clicking here. Yom HaShoah memorializes the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust The St. Louis community will mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rememberance Day) with a...

Holocaust Museum Presents New Research on Excavations at an Extermination Camp

Feb 19, 2013 | Lectures

Sunday, March 17, 1pm Jewish Federation Kopolow Building While one typically associates archaeology with the study of the distant past, Biblical archaeology Professor Richard Freund, the Maurice Greenberg Professor of History at the University of Hartford, has used...

Ruth Lehrman

Feb 13, 2013 | News

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...

Berlin Jewish Cemetery Featured in Film at the Holocaust Museum

Dec 12, 2012 | Film Screenings

This is the St. Louis premiere of the 90-minute documentary which is free and open to the public. Sunday, Dec. 30, 1 pm in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building’s Holocaust Museum Theatre. The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series...

Myrna Meyer

Dec 5, 2012 | News

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,...