The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum issued a call for the names of Holocaust survivors who settled in St. Louis after the war. Currently, the museum has collected and identified over 900 St. Louis area survivors. The museum maintains a virtual display in its St. Louis Survivors Gallery which projects a rotating list of all local survivors. The newly collected survivor names will be added to the display, to be unveiled at a private program for survivors and descendants in 2025.
“Survivors are at the heart of everything we do,” said Robb Nelson, Exhibitions Coordinator. “Recognizing each of them by name is the least we can do to honor their courage and resilience.”
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum defines a survivor as a Jewish person who experienced persecution by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933, and 1945. Holocaust survivors lived through a diverse set of experiences – some survived camps and/or ghettos, while others lived out the war in hiding. Still more escaped Europe in the early years of the Nazi regime. Each of these experiences – and everyone in between – is valid and deserving of recognition…