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

John Demjanjuk is wheeled into a Munich courtroom on Nov. 30, 2009 for the first day of his trial. The photo was taken by Sobibor death camp survivor Thomas Blatt.

Demjanjuk seeks German gov’t funding to sue tabloid

JTAPublished January 23, 2012

Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has asked Germany to provide funds for his lawsuit against the online edition of the German tabloid newspaper Bild. Demjanjuk wants some $33,000 to sue the news organization for its allegedly “derogatory...

Image from Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today.

‘Nuremberg’ documentary movingly details Nazi war crimes trials

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 18, 2012

In 1948, the United States government produced a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials to be shown to the German people as part of the de-Nazification effort. But the film, which movingly details the international effort to bring Nazi war...

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Capture of Mladic as important as killing of Osama bin Laden

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished June 1, 2011

The capture and arrest of Ratko Mladic, former Serbian Army Chief of Staff who personally led the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in Srbrenica, has been appropriately compared to the recent killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Mladic,...

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