(JTA) – Former President Donald Trump wanted his military advisors to be more like “the German generals in World War II,” according to a new book about the Trump presidency that quotes from his administration’s top personnel.
Trump reportedly...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2016
“The People vs. Fritz Bauer” opens with a short video of the real Fritz Bauer, a kindly looking white-haired old man talking about how German children should be taught all of their country’s history, good and bad. “The People vs. Fritz Bauer”...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 18, 2012
In October 2005, St. Louis attorney, author and Holocaust survivor/escapee Thomas M. (Tom) Singer completed a personal history of his family and their escape from Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”), which...
By Larry Levin, Publisher/CEO
• Published June 6, 2012
“Nicky’s Family” is really at least four movies all rolled into one. Or rather, three stories, with one told twice. The award-winning film, by Mateij Minac and Patrik Pass, tells the remarkable tale of Sir Nicholas Winton’s heroic efforts to get...
A new grant-giving foundation will provide one-time grants to help improve the quality of life for Holocaust survivors living in the United Kingdom. The Six Point Foundation said it has $6.3 million to assist victims of Nazi persecution or refugees, fugitives...
Hundreds of St. Louisans will mark the largest annual community-wide Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road, in Creve Coeur. The program, supported by Leo and Sara Wolf through the...
