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

St. Louis Jewish Light

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

St. Louis Jewish Light

"We Remember: Songs of Survivors" now available on Nine PBS

“We Remember: Songs of Survivors” now available on Nine PBS

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 27, 2022

"Many documentaries exist about the Holocaust. However, few have taken such a unique approach to telling these horrific stories." In remembering something so life-changing and tragic, yet hopeful and connective in its actions and impact, doing...

Simon Igielnik (left) with his parents, Jack and Fela, during a 1995 family trip to Israel.

Documentary on Holocaust featuring St. Louis survivors re-airing Sunday

Jordan Palmer and Eric BergerPublished April 20, 2022

Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis. “All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...

80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference is Jan. 20

80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference is Jan. 20

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 19, 2022

At a secluded villa on Berlin’s Wannsee lake, 15 senior Nazi officials came together on January 20th, 1942. The 15 had been invited for a conference by SS General Reinhard Heydrich, who was appointed by Adolf Hiter to prepare for the Final Solution...

August Häffner,left, and Viktor Trill, two of the perpetrators of the Babi Yar massacre

34,000 Jews were murdered at Babi Yar in 48 hours. This is who did it

Noga Tarnopolsky, ForwardPublished October 7, 2021

Babi Yar may be the world’s deepest whodunit: Who killed some 34,000 Jews in just 48 hours on September 29 and 30, 1941, in this unexceptional park 15 minutes from downtown Kyiv? And who proceeded to murder a total of 100,000 people in this leafy...

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