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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

President Obama's use of the term "Polish death camps" during a May29, 2012 ceremony at the White House to honor the late Polish partisanJan Karski caused a stir.

President Obama’s ‘Polish death camps’ mistake is common

By Michael Berenbaum, JTAPublished June 4, 2012

LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama made a simple and very basic mistake when he spoke of Polish death camps during the presentation of a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter who was among the first to report German...

John Demjanjuk dies

JTAPublished March 17, 2012

John Demjanjuk, the Cleveland auto worker convicted as a death camp guard, died in a German nursing home. Demjanjuk, 91, died Saturday at an old-age home in southern Germany, where he was free while he appealed his conviction last year in the murder of...

Proposed shopping center on deportation site is protested

JTAPublished February 29, 2012

PRAGUE -- Opponents of a proposed shopping center to be built on the site where Jews were deported to Nazi death camps want to ensure that an appropriate monument also is erected. Protesters wearing yellow Stars of David and pushing empty shopping carts...

Jason Cannon, Terry Meddows perform in the New Jewish Theatre's
production of ‘Way to Heaven.'

Strong performances, but story gets muddled on ‘Way to Heaven’

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished February 1, 2012

Maybe something got lost in translation, but the New Jewish Theatre's production of "Way to Heaven" gets bogged down in its effort to give a fictionalized account of the International Red Cross's whitewashed inspection of a notorious Nazi concentration...

Kazimierz Smolen, Auschwitz memorial director, dies

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

PRAGUE—Kazimierz Smolen, an Auschwitz survivor and postwar director of its memorial site, died in the Polish town of Oswiecim where the camp was located. Smolen died on the 67th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation, the Associated Press reported....

Auschwitz Jewish Center awarded for educating youth

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

The Auschwitz Jewish Center received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for its work to educate youth about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. The presentation on Jan. 27 in honor of international Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 67th anniversary...

Germans honored for preserving Jewish history

JTAPublished January 25, 2012

A former Wehrmacht soldier was one of five Germans honored this year for helping ensure that local Jewish history and culture are not forgotten. The 12th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards, one of several events in Germany marking Holocaust...

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