Interest: Holocaust
HMLC Honored with Brotherhood Sisterhood Award
The National Council of Community and Justice has presented its Brotherhood Sisterhood Award to the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. Jean Cavender, Director of the Museum, joined the Jewish Federation…
Creative Entries Sought From Students for 15th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2018 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult…
Announcing the New Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) Website!
A Note from Jean Cavender, Director of the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center: I would like to announce the newly launched Holocaust Museum & Learning Center’s (HMLC) website! You can…
Exhibit and Lecture Present History of St. Louis Jewish Anti-Tubercular Preventorium
The exhibit, Camp Fee Fee: The St. Louis Jewish Anti-Tubercular Preventorium, will open at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis on February 21, 2017. A special opening program led by…
Jewish Federation of St. Louis Receives Grant from State of Missouri: Office of Homeland Security
Jewish Federation of St. Louis is honored to announce the organization has been selected to receive an award from the 2015 Nonprofit Security Grant Program through the Missouri Office of…
Benefits for Holocaust Survivors from Poland
The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) wishes to inform Holocaust victims from Poland that they may be eligible to receive monthly payments of about $130 from the Polish government. A…
Women’s Philanthropy mission trip to Chicago
Women’s Philanthropy recently returned from a meaningful mission trip to Chicago filled with Jewish learning and bonding. Highlights of the trip included a tour of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and…
A Passover Message for 2015
Tomorrow evening, millions of Jews around the world will gather for Passover. Our tradition encourages us to imagine that we ourselves were once slaves in Egypt. The Haggadah helps us remember…
St. Louis Yom HaShoah Commemoration April 19
“Liberation and Survival: Where do I go now?” will be the focus of Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts…
Jewish Community Seeks to Identify Holocaust Survivors to Receive Claims Conference Funds
The Jewish community is looking to identify if St. Louis has enough Holocaust survivors to determine if our community can become eligible to receive Claims Conference funds to help survivors…