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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

Students offer fresh perspective on remembering the Holocaust

By Sylvia L. Ginsparg • Published June 29, 2011

On April 12, 1951, the Israeli Knesset designated the 27th day of Nissan as Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Typically, it is observed after Passover in a citywide service whereby survivors share their memories. Yahrzeit candles are lit, Kaddish...

Elaine Alexander’s mother, Paula Zysling Kempinski, is shown at top right in this photo of Holocaust survivors from Klodawa, Poland. The image was taken in 1947 at the former Displaced Persons Camp in Landsberg, Germany. The sign is translated as “Memorial, 1942 to 1947 to remember 350 Jewish families — martyrs — who fell at the hands of the Nazis in Klodawa, 5702 - 22 Tevet / Jan. 11, 1942.

Children of Shoah survivors share in parents’ losses

BY ELAINE K. ALEXANDER • Published April 27, 2011

As my sisters, and I were growing up, Auschwitz - which each of our parents had survived - was a phantom presence. Auschwitz breathed our air, sat with us at supper, and shared our slumber.In the earliest years, we were witnesses to our parents' deepest...

Survivor Sarah Klein (right) lights a candle with her granddaughter, Hannah Klein, during the 2010 Yom HaShoah community commemoration at Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel. This year’s Yom HaShoah takes place Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth. File photo: Lisa Mandel

Yom HaShoah event marks 70 years since Nazi forces invaded Former Soviet Union

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light • Published April 27, 2011

In the predawn hours of Sunday, June 22, 1941 millions of German troops accompanied by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles swarmed over the Soviet frontier and in doing so launched one of the largest invasions in the history of combat. Codenamed Operation...

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