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Philadelphia-born Isadore Zaritsky served with the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during WWII. He landed in Normandy shortly after D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He describes the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp on May 6, 1945.
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Abe Plotkin of Scranton, Pennsylvania served with the 284th Field Artillery, 3rd Army in France and Germany during WWII. In this new video from the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, he describes what it was like, as an American Jew, to discover the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the horrors of the Holocaust in April 1945.
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Story by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob McDonald KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – A 19-year old boy named Chaim Stern leaned over the railing of the ship he was traveling on. Nearly two years before, he had left his homeland of Czechoslovakia to escape persecution from the spreading Nazi threat. Now, as he reached British held Israel, the ship, full of refugees […]
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Last month, the Cleveland Jewish News ran a story written by Korean War veteran and Holocaust survivor Michael Blain, that highlighted the relative commonplace of survivors who served in the U.S. military during the war. Commenting on a recent certificate of appreciation he received from the U.S. Department of Defense in recognition of honorable service during the Korean War, Blain […]
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The Jewish Press recently reported on possibly the most serendipitous reunion I have ever heard of. Joseph Rosenfeld, a survivor of Mauthausen and later an Army veteran, recently had a chance to break bread with Alan Moskin, one of the soldiers who liberated his camp back in 1945. How did they find one another? Through a long and arduous search […]
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The 174th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East, held a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony last week at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.. Joshua Brisk, a Holocaust survivor was the guest speaker for the event. Brisk is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors of the Bistritz Ghetto and Auschwitz. After 11 months in Auschwitz he was transferred to Dachau and subsequently liberated by American Soldiers. Among the […]
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Legion Magazine has a fantastic article about Werner Kleeman, a 91-year-old Jewish WWII veteran, whose story is rather unique and amazing. Mr. Kleeman, a German citizen at the time, was rounded up and sent to the Dachau camp just after Kristalnacht. In what was surely a continuous series of amazingly fortunate events, Kleeman was able to secure his release from […]
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