Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 5, 2026
This story was originally published on Feb. 22, 2017, when Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss — Anne Frank’s posthumous stepsister — visited St. Louis to speak with students at Washington University. Schloss, who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau...
On May 7, 2022, Holocaust survivor Gerda Cole attended her 98th birthday party. The recreation room at Revera Kennedy Lodge Long Term Care Home in Toronto, where Gerda lives, was decorated in blue — her favorite color — and she wore a crown and...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 9, 2021
When Sharon Berry was reviewing her emails in July 2018, she paused at one from the organization that oversees a memorial at the former Buchenwald concentration camp and thought, “This must be a sick joke,” she recalled recently.It was about a bracelet...
Holocaust Survivor Eva Perlman will share her extraordinary life story at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. Her talk is hosted by Hillel at Washington University and the Hillel Leadership Council in commemoration of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). ...
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...
Editorial off-base I am appalled at your June 28 editorial headline, “Bibi’s Biggest Blunder,” about the Israeli prime minister’s cancellation of plans for a pluralistic prayer site at the Western Wall. Women in Judaism are far from being considered...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 21, 2017
Jerry Koenig, a Holocaust survivor who shared his harrowing story with a multitude of audiences in the bistate area, died Monday, June 11. He was 87 and a longtime resident of Chesterfield. The cause of death was complications from abdominal surgery and...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2017
“Past Life” is a tense and moving Israeli mystery based on a true story about a Holocaust survivor and his two daughters.Directed by award-winning Israeli writer/director Avi Nesher, the film begins in 1977. The younger daughter, Sephi Milch (Joy...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 22, 2017
Sara Najman Wolf, described as the “Matriarch of the survivor community” by Jean Cavender, director of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, and who worked with her late husband Leo to help establish the museum, died May 12. She was 89, and a longtime...
St. Louis, along with numerous U.S. and Israeli cities, observed Yom Hashoah, the “Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust” this past week. Signed into formal law by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1953, it is a yearly reminder for each of us to...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 6, 2017
Rose Safar Rosen, formerly of St. Louis, who as a young girl imprisoned at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp was literally pushed out of the line of those marked for certain death, and who after the war met her husband at a Displaced Persons camp in Europe,...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 2, 2016
Margaret (Marge) Bilinsky, a Holocaust survivor and filmmaker who served for 25 years as regional director of the St. Louis Council and Chapter of the American Jewish Congress, died Sunday, Oct. 23, at age 83. A longtime resident of the St. Louis area,...
