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Community members attend the unveiling of the Ribbon of Hope display the faces of the approximate 130 hostages still being held in Gaza. PHOTOS: BILL MOTCHAN
‘Ribbon of Hope’ to stand tall in STL until hostages released BILL MOTCHAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
Nearly 100 members of the St. Louis community gathered in Creve Coeur Monday to mark 150 days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. They gathered for the unveiling of “Ribbon of Hope,” a dis-
play that depicts the faces of the approximate 130 hostages still being held in Gaza. The large blue-and-white ribbon paying tribute to the Israeli hostages was unveiled at 11557 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur. A community ceremony accompanied the introduction of the 15-foot by
10-foot installation. The ribbon depicts the faces of all of the hostages still being held in Gaza. The display will remain at 11557 Olive Blvd. for three weeks. It will then move to United Hebrew Congregation if the hostages are still being held at that time. The original version of the ribbon is
located outside the Jewish Federation of Cleveland where it was installed on Dec. 22. The artwork was designed by Nancy Schwartz-Katz, a Cleveland-based Judaic artist who specializes in gouache on paper. Schwartz-Katz said the concept for See RIBBON on page 12
Museum to host STL premiere of noted Holocaust documentary Filmmaker spent a decade chronicling group of Jews who fought back against Nazis CHIEF DIGITAL CONTENT OFFICER
For more than a decade, filmmaker Julia Mintz meticulously crafted her award-winning documentary “Four Winters” to challenge existing myths surrounding Jewish survival during World War II, offering a new and differing portrayal of courage. Now, she is bringing her film to St. Louis for the first time. In honor of Women’s History Month, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is hosting an exclusive screening
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of “Four Winters” as well as a post-viewing conversation with Mintz on March 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. Through gripping accounts and archival footage, “Four Winters” unveils the courageous acts of Jews who defied the odds, escaping to the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus. There, they forged alliances and formed partisan brigades to fight back against the Nazis and their collaborators. Speaking on her inspiration for making See DOCUMENTARY on page 13
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