Holocaust survivor Elsie Hirsch Levy, a Holocaust survivor now residing in St. Louis, marked her 100th birthday on July 2, 2017.  She was the subject of an article in the May 25, 2011 issue of the St. Louis Jewish Light regarding her recovering some long-lost family artifacts from her grade-school classmate, Marie Beisswenger, with whom she had stayed in contact for many years. The items had been held in safekeeping for 70 years by a German family. Read the story online at http://bit.ly/ELSIE-100a.

The Light also published a story about Levy in 2010 in a story about “The Flame,” a picture-filled art quilt that hangs at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. A memorial to the victims of World War II, the quilt was designed by the late Roz Flax and hand-sewn by Levy. Read that story online at http://bit.ly/ELSIE-100b.