HEC-TV Does Live Broadcast from the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Friday, January 27th HMLC partnered with LIVE productions and HEC-TV to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Live broadcasts were conducted at 10a.m. and 1p.m. from the Museum Theater to schools throughout the nation. Both programs were a huge success and we are continually getting positive feed back from across the country from participating schools, students and their parents. Many student's lives were forever touched by the riveting stories of Holocaust survivors, Guenter Goldsmith, George Spooner, Rachel Miller and Rudy Oppenheim. Our thanks to HEC-TV for giving us the opportunity to provide this exceptional educational outreach to students who otherwise might not be able to hear the testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Click on the link below to watch the broadcasts http://www.hectv.org/programs/series/hec-tv-live/
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Create a Jewish Legacy and Help Ensure the Lessons of the Holocaust are Learned
Whether you're adjusting to retirement or starting a family of your own, you can provide a promising future for generations to come. Your legacy gift can help safeguard your values and ensure that the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center and its programs are sustained for many years ahead.
Planning a bequest to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center is easy and may provide tax benefits for your estate. There is no wrong stage in your life to make provisions that will impact the future of our community. Begin planning your legacy to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center today. Call Director Jean Cavender at 314-442-3715 or visit jewishinstlouis.org/JCF.
HMLC is working with the Jewish Community Foundation of St. Louis to create legacy funds for the Museum. Remember anyone can be a philanthropist and a gift of any size can create a Jewish Legacy.
Click here to view our HMLC/JCF advertisment. The Rosenberg Film Series will Resumes in January of 2012. Brochures will be sent out early 2012.
January Film:
The Reader
Sunday, January 29 at 1P.M. (Note new time)
Directed by Stephen Daldry
USA/German, 2009 - 124 minutes
Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her role as a complex German woman in this controversial film about responsibility, reconciliation and Holocaust memory. Law student Ralph Fiennes re-encounters the woman who seduced him as a child, who is now defending herself against charges of war crimes during the Holocaust.
Rated "R" for scenes of sexuality and nudity.
Introductory remarks by Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, St. Louis Jewish Light
HMLC Art & Writing Contest Exhibition on View at the Sheldon Art Galleries througt the end of February.
Approximately thirty works of art, prose and poetry are on view at the Sheldon Art Galleries through the end of February. The exhibition is comprised of the work submitted by middle and high school students who participated in the contest for 2011.
Community member and writing judge, L.D. Brodsky, stated "There were some exceptional entries this year." One art class from Hazelwood West submitted artisitic variations of butterflies based on the book ...I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Curator and Director of Education Dan Reich remarked on the high quality of their creations.
The Art and Writing Contest is now in its tenth year and is graciously funded by Dr. Ira and Judith Gall.
Approximately 1000 People Attend the 2011 Annual Holocaust Remembrance to Commemorate 70th Anniversary of Nazi Invasion of the Former Soviet Union Yom HaShoah on Sunday, May 1st at Congregation Shaare Emeth
Approximately 1000 St. Louisans attended the largest annual community-wide Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at Congregation Shaare Emeth. The commemoration was led by Rabbi Jim Bennett. Yom HaShoah, supported by Leo and Sara Wolf through the Wolf/Najman Memorial, memorializes the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. The event is sponsored by the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center.
The event opened with the blowing of the shofar by HMLC Docent Rob Lowenstein followed by a procession of Torahs in which several Rabbis from local congregation were represented. Second and third generation (people whose parents or grandparents were Holocaust survivors) attendees accompanied the rabbis to represent the future generations who will bear the responsibility for carrying on the legacy of Holocaust remembrance. Russian Holocaust survivors Charna Palatnik, Sulamif Gipkin and Dr. Aleksander Reznik gave their moving testimonies through interpreters.
A musical interlude was given by a woman's choral group comprised of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust from the former Soviet Union, now living in St. Louis. In addtion, attendees honored approximately 50 Soviet-Jewish Worled War II veterans who contributed immeasurably in halting Nazi aggression.
Click on the link below to see all the media coverage about this year's Yom HaShoah.
http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/page.aspx?id=238570
More Than 400 People Attend
HMLC's 15th Anniversary Dinner
Holocaust Museum and Learning Center commemorated Its Fifteenth Anniversary History's Lessons , Tomorrow's Hope on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at the Frontenac Hilton.
The Museum unveiled its plan for a new exhibition that speaks to other acts of anti-Semitism, crimes against humanity and other genocides. Read about the Museums plans and more about the dinner (click here)
Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a leading expert on the Holocaust throughout the world gave the keynote address. Featured in Jewish Sages of Today: Profiles of Extraordinary People, Devorah Press, he has spent a lifetime doing Holocaust education. Dr. Berenbaum spoke about the importance of having Holocaust Museums to better understand our history so we can move forward.
See photos from the event on jewishinstlouis.org (click here)
Helping Those In Need In Haiti
The Jewish Federations of North America is partnering with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to provide urgently needed aid and relief on a nonsectarian basis to victims of the devastating earthquake. Click on the link below on jewishinstlouis.org and find out how you can contribute money to help.
http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/Haiti
A Letter from Mariah K. Boyer of Potosi High School to Holocaust Survivor George Spooner
Dear Mr. Spooner,
I'm a senior from Potosi High School, my class came to visit the Museum on May 11th, and I would just like to take the time to thank you for telling us your truly amazing story. I didn't get to meet you personally and shake your hand. It truly is amazing how you stand up in front of a crowd of teenagers and grasp everyone's attention and have the courage to tell everyone your story.
The stories in test books and videos about the Holocaust didn't become a horrifying reality until I heard you speak. Hearing stories from my history teacher didn't have nearly the impact. It is always better to hear it from someone who was actually there. I am truly grateful.
You are a very brave person.
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