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Dr. Raul Artal Mittelmark stands in his St. Louis University office before retiring in 2014.

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How A Holocaust Survivor’s Difficult Birth Led To His Career In High-Risk Pregnancies

Emily Woodbury

On April 22, 1943, Dr. Raul Artal-Mittelmark was born in a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, a region in Eastern Europe. “It was a very difficult…

Arts

How One Small, Kind Act Resulted In Hundreds Of Thanksgiving Dinners for Needy St. Louisans

Marissanne Lewis-Thompson

Congregation Temple Israel is hosting its annual Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday. For more than three decades, the synagogue has served Thanksgiving…

Passengers aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939. The ship of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany was blocked from landing in Cuba, Canada and the U.S. and ultimately returned to Europe.

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This Ship Of Jewish Refugees Asked For Shelter 80 Years Ago — And The US Said No

Shahla Farzan

Updated at 5 p.m., June 5 with information about a new location for the event — The lecture and vigil will now be held at the Missouri History Museum to…

Health, Science, Environment

New documentary explores St. Louis' connection to nuclear waste contamination

During World War II, a St. Louis-based company took on a project that turned out to be detrimental to the health of its employees.Mallinckrodt Chemical…