Stories From The Holocaust
![Legendary Mossad agent’s spy sketchbook, turned art exhibition coming to St. Louis](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Peter-Malkin-1200x675.jpg)
Legendary Mossad agent’s spy sketchbook, turned art exhibition coming to St. Louis
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 17, 2024
![Jews being led to Umschlagplatz; photo taken from a window of St Zofia Hospital at the corner of Żelazna and Nowolipie Streets, most likely (to be confirmed) overlooking Nowolipie Street; author’s comment noted after the war at the back of the print held in the USHMM archive in Washington, DC:
”Scenes from the evacuation of the ghetto, ca 20 April 1943”
Photo: Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, son of Leszek Grzywaczewski / scan of the negative: POLIN Museum, Archaeology of Photography Foundation](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising-900x506.jpg)
A look at never-before-seen Warsaw Ghetto Uprising photos
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 16, 2023
![David “Saba” Wisnia in a lighter moment. “My father’s personality is effervescent,” said his son Eric. “He sparkles, which I find amazing considering his life story.” After his family was killed by Nazis, Wisnia was imprisoned at Auschwitz at age 16, and survived by singing for guards. After a daring escape, he was rescued by U.S. Army troops and went on to flourish in America. Photo credit: Retro Report](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/David-Wisnia-900x506.jpg)
Story of man who sang to survive Auschwitz to premiere on Nine PBS Tuesday
Published April 16, 2023
![Jewish resistance fighters who were captured by SS troops during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, April 19-May 16, 1943.
The original German caption reads: These bandits offered armed resistance. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Women-in-Warsaw-900x506.jpg)
How to honor and learn about the unsung heroines of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 14, 2023
![The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation.
Maladie de Famine, American Joint Distribution Committee](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Warsaw-Ghetto-Doctors-Legal-900x506.jpg)
Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto secretly documented the effects of Nazi-imposed starvation
Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University and Irwin Rosenberg, Tufts University
• Published April 14, 2023
![From Berlin to St. Louis, the incredible story of the doll Eveline](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Evaline-4-900x506.jpeg)
From Berlin to St. Louis, the incredible story of the doll Eveline
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 6, 2023
![The Book of Names, at U.N. Headquarters in New York. Credit: Yad Vashem.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Book-of-Names--900x601.jpg)
Yad Vashem to unveil ‘The Book of Names’ at the United Nations
By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
• Published January 23, 2023
![From Germany to Shanghai, how Rudolf Oppenheim found his way to St. Louis](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPPENHEIM-900x506.jpg)
From Germany to Shanghai, how Rudolf Oppenheim found his way to St. Louis
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 10, 2023
![How strangers gave a Holocaust survivor a Jewish funeral](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Smdc12165314-900x486.jpeg)
How strangers gave a Holocaust survivor a Jewish funeral
By Baila Brackman, Chabad.org/news
• Published January 5, 2023
![Can you help us identify the Jews depicted in these Holocaust-era portraits drawn by a St. Louis artist?](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/images-900x506.jpg)
Can you help us identify the Jews depicted in these Holocaust-era portraits drawn by a St. Louis artist?
Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 1, 2022
![Klotzer’s father was imprisoned in Buchenwald Concentration camp. Here is a photo of eating utensils from the camp.
Photo by Dr. Hans-Günter Wagner via Flickr](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Klotzer-900x506.jpg)
Coming of age on Kristallnacht
By Charles Klotzer, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2022
![Tragic tale of the MS St. Louis takes the stage for the first time](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Good-Ship-St.-Louis-900x506.jpg)
Tragic tale of the MS St. Louis takes the stage for the first time
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 1, 2022
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