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Samuel G. Breidner has written a series of articles for The Sun News of Myrtle Beach giving a brief history of Jewish military contributions. Article #1 ties in the Channukah story to everything from Pearl Harbor to The War of 1812. Article #2 talks about Jewish heroes in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the beginning of WWI. Article […]
Read moreEditors Note: The following is an excerpt from Howard Leavtt’s Semper Chai , an amazing book that profiles numerous Jewish Marines through many generations. It’s Tough To Be the Only One As he puts it, he was the only Jewish Marine officer in his outfit most of the time in the Corps. In fact, he was the only Jewish Marine […]
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Aharon ben Anshel over at The Jewish Press recently highlighted a new book about Jews who served in World War II. GI Jews, by Deborah Dash Moore, charts the lives of fifteen young Jewish servicemen through their personal memoirs, oral histories, and letters. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve added it to my Amazon list. I’ll post a […]
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The Washington Post recently posted an article on Doris Rubenfeld Lewis, who passed away at age 83 in May of this year. She was a “teacher and artist, a wife and mother, a draftsman-she’d never call herself a “draftsperson”-and a Coast Guard veteran of World War II.” Although she lived most of her years in the Maryland/D.C. area, Lewis was […]
Read moreThe Desert Dispatch recently wrote about Gene Selig, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Sachsenhausen to the United States and later joined the Navy. In the article, Mr. Selig reflects on the freedom he enjoys in the U.S. on July 4th. However, he doesn’t hold anything back as he discusses his concern with the lack of many Americans’ appreciation of […]
Read moreThe following are excerpts of an article by Jennifer Kavanaugh from the Metro Daily West News* Life sometimes forces choices that are too awful to be considered real choices, and William Feinberg weighed his fate as a 19-year-old Army soldier in a World War II prison camp. “It was dangerous, no matter which way you go,” Feinberg said. “If I […]
Read moreThe following are excerpts of an article by Andrew Lightman from the Newton Tab* Sixty years after his assault on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, Melvin Bloom remembers the noise and smell most vividly. The dunes were steep and high, like a wall, said Bloom, an 81-year-old Navy veteran. The Germans had dug in and were blasting the beach with […]
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