The Jewish community of St. Louis is the first in the United States to establish a section to be known as the “St. Louis Jewish Community Archives,” in the proposed Hall of Sacred Treasures, under construction on the $5,000,000 campus of the Jewish University of America in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago, it was announced here today by Max Bressler, national chairman of development of the university.
“The Hall of Sacred Treasures will be the commemorative center in the United States and Canada, not only for the archives of communities like those of St. Louis, but for those Jewish communities no longer in existence, victims of the Nazi terror,” Mr. Bressler said. “There will be a permanent memorial to the 6,000,000 Jews lost in the Nazi holocaust, and outstanding Jewish scholars will lecture at an Institute of Jewish Martyrology, which will be part of the Hall of Sacred Treasures which is expected to open in 1960.”
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