ST. LOUIS – Using thread and fabric, a powerful story has been woven together inside the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.
The museum’s newest exhibit, called “Stitching History,” details the story of Hedy and Paul Strnad, who had a shop in Prague in the 1930s before Czechoslovakia was controlled by the Nazis.
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“Hedwig and Paul Strnad lived in Czechoslovakia,” said Myron Freedman, executive director of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. “She was a dress designer and thriving in her business there and she had lots of clients. She also saw that things were changing and that they needed to get out. In order to make that happen, they sent her dress designs to the family in America, hoping they could find work for them to facilitate leaving Czechoslovakia. The dress designs got to America, but they did not. They ended up perishing in the Holocaust.”…