The Children’s Forest

Oct 11, 2019 | News

Editor’s note: Occasionally, HMLC will provide scholarship funds for students who are taking trips to further their education about the Holocaust. In return, we ask for a photo and an article about what impressed them the most about their trip. Yael Avni was one of...

Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series returns with ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’

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...

Upcoming talk to remember fate of MS St. Louis passengers

Sep 10, 2019 | Lectures, Programs & Events

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...

Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series features Kirk Douglas in ‘The Juggler’

Aug 8, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events

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...

HMLC to Commemorate Tisha B’Av with Special Film Program

Jul 30, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events

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...

Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci star in this month’s Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series screening

Jul 10, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events

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...

Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau star in this month’s Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series screening

Jun 6, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events

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...

Jewish Motorcycle Alliance Ride to Remember

Jun 5, 2019 | News, Programs & Events

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,...

24 Students Win in 17th Annual Holocaust Museum Art & Writing Contest

May 7, 2019 | News, Programs & Events

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’...

New book profiles Holocaust Museum docent and teacher who makes a difference, Irl Solomon

Apr 24, 2019 | Programs & Events

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...