Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
“What is a nice Jewish girl going to do in the military, especially in the Marine Corps?” –Miranda Bloch’s incredulous father Oy, don’t get me started about that question. The Jewish Women’s Archive has an excellent profile of Miranda Bloch, who enlisted in the Marine Corps during WWII and served as an aviation technician for training flights that prepared pilots […]
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Over the years, I have been occasionally contacted by individuals that share their story of Jewish service or one of a friend or family member. Some of these are as simple as a reference to service mixed in with a thank you, but others give an amazing glimpse into the life of a Jewish service member. Last month I was […]
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The Military Times has a nice eulogy for Senator Frank Lautenberg. In addition to his service in the Senate, Lautenberg was also an Army veteran of WWII. His casket was set to arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday and lie in repose in the Senate chamber, on the Lincoln Catafalque, a bier that was built for the coffin of Abraham […]
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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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The Veterans History Project (VHP) of the Library of Congress is an oral history program that collects and preserves the first-hand interviews of America’s wartime veterans. Among their many collections, is one devoted specifically to Jewish veterans of WWII. It’s an interesting window into the daily lives and experiences of these young men when they went off to war. In addition to […]
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It was more than 70 years ago, but Jerry Hoenig clearly remembers the days he spent as a teenager with his best friend Frank Freeland. The two Brooklyn boys would go into Manhattan together to see the old boats at South Ferry and visit the aquarium. “We used to pal around,” Hoenig recalled, sitting in his dining room on Long […]
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