Last week, I got an unexpected and delightful surprise, just in time for Veteran’s Day.A cousin passed away last year, and his daughter had gotten around to cleaning out his things. In doing so, she had stumbled across a photo album from my aunt and...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• August 16, 2017
We all know that attempts were made to assassinate Adolf Hitler in Germany late during World War II. But what if he had been assassinated in November 1939? Think how history would have changed, particularly for Jews.Such an assassination attempt actually...
The morning of June 11, 1943, U.S. forces launched an air offensive against Japanese forces occupying Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Japan had attacked a Naval weather station there a year earlier.B-24 and B-25 bombers and P-38 and P-40...
Seventy eight years ago, the M.S. St. Louis set sail from Germany carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. Turned away from the Cuban, United States, and Canadian borders, the ship was forced to return...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• June 1, 2017
An upcoming book is set to chronicle the lives of veterans who reside at the Brookdale Senior Living Center on Craig Road.“The Boys of Brookdale” will be an examination of World War II stories from 16 individuals who live in the Creve Coeur apartment...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• 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 CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• August 11, 2016
“Anthropoid” sounds like the title of a science fiction movie but is in fact the title of a film about a secret World War II mission, code named “Operation Anthropoid,” to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking SS officer.Heydrich, nicknamed...
By Eric Mink, Special to the Jewish Light
• January 4, 2012
It was a good year for genocide. Or, more precisely, 2011 was a good year for pursuing, prosecuting and punishing mass murderers, torturers, sadists, rapists and exterminators-and the ideologues, strategists and functionaries who enable the dirty work...
