updated Thu. February 15, 2024
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AlterNet
July 31, 2016
The FBI just released its files on the Holocaust survivor and intrepid human rights activist Hedy Epstein, revealing that the agency was monitoring her activism to support the human rights of Palestinians. The files on Epstein, who died in May at the age of 91, were released in response to a Freedom ofÃâà...
St. Louis Jewish Light
June 1, 2016
As editor of the Light, I first met Hedy Epstein when she was the executive director of Freedom of Residence. We were giving talks at a meeting on whether St. Louis County should adopt a fair housing law. In the course of her remarks. Ms. Epstein made reference to seeing a document that her parents hadÃâà...
New York Times
May 28, 2016
When the police ordered the protesters to leave, nine refused. And so it came to pass that Hedy Epstein, wearing a black T-shirt with the words “Stay Human” printed in white letters, was handcuffed, taken to a nearby substation and charged with “failure to disperse.” She had turned 90 three days earlier.
St. Louis American
May 27, 2016
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Hedy Epstein was arrested 10 days after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, in August 2014. She didn't like the way people who were demonstrating against the killing were being treated by police and the National Guard, so she joined a group of peacefulÃâà...
STLtoday.com
May 26, 2016
Hedy Epstein marches in downtown St. Louis on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, to ask Gov. Jay Nixon for police tactics in Ferguson to be toned down. She later ... Among those arrested was Hedy Epstein, who had just turned 90. She wore a T-shirt with the words, “Stay Human.” The arrest in August 2014 was herÃâà...
St. Louis Public Radio
May 26, 2016
Hedy Epstein was arrested 10 days after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, in August 2014. She didn't like the way people who were demonstrating against the killing were being treated by police and the National Guard, so she joined a group of peaceful protesters. They marched toÃâà...
teleSUR English
January 26, 2016
Hedy Epstein was not among those who smiled and posed with the Soviets as they came. She was not at the camp, although her family, including her parents Ella and Hugo Wachenheimer, had been. Epstein had been born and raised in Germany, and was 8 years old when the Nazi's came to power inÃâà...
Huffington Post
August 18, 2014
Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, was arrested on Monday during unrest over the death of Michael Brown, KMOV reports. Epstein, who aided Allied forces in the Nuremberg trials, was placed under arrest in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, “for failing to disperse” during a protest of Gov.
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