Beth Olam Cemetery in Los Angeles was saved from foreclosure after two years of failed rescue attempts. The Jewish section of the century-old Hollywood Memorial Park was sold for $375,000 to a St. Louis cemetery operator. An estimated 20,000 Jews are buried or were cremated at Beth Olam, including actors Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre, composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold and mobster Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel.
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