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

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

St. Louis Jewish Light

How St. Louisan Murry Cymber survived 7 concentration camps before meeting his wife

How St. Louisan Murry Cymber survived 7 concentration camps before meeting his wife

Published October 20, 2021

The following story is part of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. It was told by Toby Cymber Gutterman in memory of her beloved husband, Murry Cymber. Murray passed away in 1973 and didn’t live to do it himself,...

This cute Austrian kid, grew up, hid in France, & fought Nazis as an Italian partisan

This cute Austrian kid, grew up, hid in France, & fought Nazis as an Italian partisan

THE ST. LOUIS KAPLAN HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 24, 2021

Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...

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