Lest we forget, on Thursday, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that the State of Missouri Archives have awarded a $5,200 grant to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, which is a department of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. The grant will help survey, preserve and organize records from the past two decades associated with St. Louis-area Holocaust survivors, their families and others. One such collection that was found during a preliminary evaluation of documents illustrates of lives of a German Jewish family over a forty-year period. It includes items from their service in the German army during World War I, as well as photographs and memorabilia of life in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.   

This grant to the Jewish Federation of St. Louis is part of $65,000 awarded to the Missouri State Archives by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to promote the preservation and availability of Missouri’s historical records. The majority of these funds have been awarded to local and regional institutions across the state for preservation and access projects. Since 2001, similar grants totaling more than $560,000 have been awarded to Missouri’s historical records repositories through the Missouri Historical Records Grant Program (MHRGP).

To learn more, visit www.sos.mo.gov.