By Heidi Glaus ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - The images are hard to look
at. The stories still shocking more than 70 years later. "First
they went to a shower, then they dropped a gas bomb in and then
they cremated them, okay. That's what happened to my mother and
three siblings," Ben Fainer, a Holocaust survivor tells four
students. The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center opened in
1995, but three years ago the folks at the museum started
working on a new exhibit. "This exhibition is really about
extending the conversation from what ended in 1945 to really
talking about hate discrimination and ethnic conflict in today's
world," Jean Cavender, Director of the Holocaust Museum and
Learning Center explains. It is a high-tech, hands-on learning
opportunity that examines international issues of hate and
discrimination, as well as the unthinkable in our own community.
"Oh this is the knockout game, I didn't know about this before,"
one student says to another as they read about the local
tragedy. "We really want to bring it