Walter “Wally” Mayer, a Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran, is now officially a centenarian. Mayer, one of the Wallys who built Jewish St. Louis, was the center of attention at the Jewish Community Center on March 28 at a party...

In 1966, about 1,000 people gathered at Temple Israel in Creve Coeur to hear a Danish doctor explain how he helped save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Nearly 60 years later, that story is being told again through a new pop-up display in the...

Holocaust survivor Henia Lewin was just a toddler when her life became a story of hiding, survival and improbable reunion. On Monday, March 23, she brings that story to Washington University, offering Jewish St. Louis a chance to hear firsthand testimony...

In a black-and-white photograph taken in Kobe, Japan, in August 1940, a group of young Jewish students — refugees carrying everything they owned — walks down a street with suitcases. Near the center of the image, one of them holds an umbrella. That...

  JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczców,...

  This story starts with a lecture at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Two weeks ago, Kent Hirschfelder was in the audience as David Marwell discussed his book, “Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death,” and his experience...

I’ve learned something about going to history lectures. If I walk in cold, without knowing much or anything, I spend the first 20 minutes trying to orient myself. If I walk in with even a little context, I actually enjoy it. That’s how I’m approaching...

  In the Feb. 18 issue of the Jewish Light, our Page 1 story told you everything you needed to know about the 31st annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which begins March 15. Nonetheless, we wanted to offer a friendly reminder about the...

  (JTA) — Vice President JD Vance made a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that failed to mention either Jews or Nazis, igniting further Jewish criticism of the vice president from both sides of the aisle. The...

  (JTA) — Hessy Levinsons Taft, a Jewish woman whose baby photo was selected in a competition to represent the Aryan race in Nazi Germany, died on Jan. 1 at 91. Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson,...

  As part of its monthly educational series, the Law Library Association of St. Louis, a public and membership law library located in the Cahill Courts Building (formerly known as the Civil Courts Building) in downtown St. Louis, is presenting...

Auschwitz was built to extinguish resistance: barbed wire, armed guards, industrialized murder. No one was meant to fight back, let alone survive. In 1944, Jewish prisoners defied that design. Guns weere smuggled piece by piece. Knives were forged...