St. Louis: Faces Behind Barbed Wire

The dark history of World War II has endless secrets – some that will probably never reach the eyes and ears of the public. European internment camps, created to detain Jews, prostitutes, communists and other individuals of “questionable” motives, were concealed from the majority of citizens until decades following the war.

One such camp, at Rivesaltes in the south of France, is the last vestige of this hidden plot. Rivesaltes, only officially closed in 1970, now serves as the largest Holocaust memorial in Western Europe, with a historical exhibit cobbled together artfully by historian Denis Peschanski; the Musée Mémorial du camp Rivesaltes; and Holocaust survivor and St. Louis resident, Neal Sokol.

The exhibit will include photographs and documents, as well as survivors’ video testimonies as collected by Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Location

Holocaust Museum and Learning Center
12 Millstone Campus Drive
St. Louis, MO. 63146
http://www.hmlc.org/

Exhibit runs March 21, 2010- May 6, 2010, 1:30- 4pm
(See website for closings.)