Upcoming Events

Join the Museum for Civil Rights Night: The Impact of Racial Laws from Jim Crow and the Holocaust featuring historian Dr. Dan J. Puckett, Professor of History at Troy University and Chair of the Alabama Holocaust Commission. Dr. Puckett will explore racial laws in both American history and the Holocaust. He will be joined in conversation by Reverend Rodrick Burton, President at St. Louis Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy and member of the Museum’s Board of Directors.

This event offers a thought-provoking look at how the histories of racial oppression in the American history and Nazi genocide relate, inviting reflection on civil rights, justice, and historical memory.

Join the Museum for a Day of Remembrance in connection with our special exhibition, Resilience: A Sensi Sense of Legacy. February 19th commemorates President Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which led to the forced removal and imprisonment of over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. The Museum and the Japanese American Citizens League welcome you for a conversation with author, Tracy Slater and Japanese-American Internment Descendent, Robin Hattori for a discussion of Slater’s book, Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp.

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Mendel Rosenberg Film Series invites you to a powerful afternoon at the Museum featuring 999: The Forgotten Girls. This new documentary brings to light the long-silenced stories of nearly one thousand young Jewish women and teenage girls deported from Slovakia to Auschwitz on March 25, 1942, the first official transport to the camp.

Join the Museum for a one hour live musical experience of loss and resilience, From Silence to Song: Hope and Remembrance after the Holocaust. Lori Laitman’s I Never Saw Another Butterfly brings the words of young voices to life, chosen from a collection of poems written by children from the Terezin Concentration Camp. Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Another Sunrise tells the story of Krystyna Zywulska, a Holocaust survivor and author of I Survived Auschwitz.

Through the larger theme of “More than Just Old Stuff” this 2026 Inside the Vault session will be discussing how museums started. The presentation will also give a behind-the-scenes look at why our collection is the way it is and also help you better understand what our archives team’s role is at the museum. Join our Archives & Collections staff to delve into this important topic and get a closer look at our collections!