Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
As part of a new permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH), the museum is developing an interactive computer touch table. The theme of this interactive map is American military service around the world (1948 to the present) and it will include the personal stories and photographs of those who have served. The museum needs your […]
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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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Well, not quite 101, but Aish posted an article for Memorial Day that contains a number of interesting facts and tidbits about Jewish military service. Among them: George Washington directly commanded 40 Jewish soldiers. Every adult Jewish male in Charleston, South Carolina, fought for independence. Judah Philip Benjamin served both as Secretary of War and Secretary of State for the […]
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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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The Jerusalem Post had an interesting article over Passover about Jews in the Confederate and Union armies celebrating the holiday during the war: It was April 24, 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, and in between his duties as an infantryman, young Isaac J. Levy sat down in camp on one of the intermediate days of Passover […]
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