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1. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.354.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0169
Date:
interview: 1990 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… chaplain after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor; serving as the senior Jewish chaplain with the United States Army in the United Kingdom and then in France during…
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 … wanted to enlist as a chaplain. And enlist I did not long, after Pearl Harbor, and I was uh admitted to the Army in Chicago and ordered to report at uh…
2. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Nadich enlisted in the US Army as a chaplain. At the end of…
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 … consist of material related to Rabbi Nadich’s work as a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army from 1942-1945, and his work as the Senior Jewish Chaplain…
3. Oral history interview with Donald Butler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.321.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0673
Date:
interview: 2012 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; receiving only six weeks of training in a Virginia military camp; his assignment as vice-chaplain to Protestant Army Chaplain Eccles for the Jewish troops…
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 … assigned there. 325 00:18:51,446 --> 00:18:55,340 And I was working with the Protestant chaplain. 326 00:18:55,340 --> 00:18:57,205 I was-- the Protestant…
4. Oral history interview with Morris Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0364 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0085
Date:
interview: 1989 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; arriving in Shanghai as a Jewish chaplain and being greeted by a large Jewish community; conducting a Bar Mitzvah with a boy; his memories of the Shanghai…
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 … work in China. Q: How did you get to go to Shanghai? A: Really by orders. They they wanted a chaplain and they wanted a Jewish chaplain. They look around…
5. Max Eichhorn collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.60.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
bulk: 1939-1950
… Hebrew Union College in 1931 and was ordained as a rabbi. In 1941, Eichhorn enlisted in the Army as a chaplain. He was stationed at Camp Croft in July 1942…
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 …’s World War II service as a Jewish chaplain. Eichhorn was one of the first Jewish chaplains to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and he…
6. Elihu H. Rickel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.203.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
…. During World War II, he was commissioned as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy in 1943, serving initially with the U.S. Marine Corps at Parris Island, South…
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 … chaplain with the U.S. Marine Corps, ministering to Jewish communities in North China, particularly in Tianjin (Tientsin), following World War II…
7. Oral history interview with Herbert Friedman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0074
Date:
interview: 1992 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a rabbi and working closely with American Jewish leader Stephen S. Wise; becoming a chaplain in the United States Army during World War II; going to…
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 … as an infantry chaplain and you get -- we sailed from Boston and were put into a replacement depot up in Belgium in a little town called Namur. And…
8. Oral history interview with Eugene Lipman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0135
Date:
interview: 1990 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent overseas as an army chaplain in April 1945; after the war helping Jewish survivors at Buchenwald and Dachau before being sent to Plzen…
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 … Cincinnati, finished it HUC in 1943, having accelerated a year because they needed chaplains so badly. And...uh...so we went to school for 22 straight months…
9. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.17 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rabbi Judah Nadich discusses being a chaplain in the US Army during WWII; being stationed in Paris, France, where among other activities, he helped…
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 … an American Army Jewish chaplain. 371 00:27:36,430 --> 00:27:39,070 372 00:27:39,070 --> 00:27:42,640 And that was the reason for my being 373 00:27:42…
10. Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen photograph collection
2015.458.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 86
Document | Accession Number: 2015.458.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
… Emanuel in Providence, RI. Rabbi Bohnen joined the US Army in 1943 and served as assistant chaplain with the 42nd Infantry Division at the rank of Major. He…
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 … experiences of United States Army Chaplain Rabbi Eli Bohnen in Austria and Germany from 1943-1946. The photograph album was presented to Bohnen, who worked with…
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  • File 1: Bohnen, Eli A. 1945-1946
11. Jewish religious service at Dachau
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2017 | Film ID: 841
Date:
Event: May 5-6, 1945
Duration:
00:11:01
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CHAPLAINS…
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 … held. 4 00:00:12,270 --> 00:00:22,250 5 00:00:22,250 --> 00:00:28,050 Army chaplain to celebrate a church ceremony for the Jews 6 00:00:28,050 --> 00:00…
12. Oral history interview with Flower Silliman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.168.2 | RG Number: RG-50.978.0002
Date:
interview: 2017 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… community to marry British and American GIs; two Jewish military chaplains she met in Calcutta, David Seligson (American) and Chaplain Bloch (British…
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 … • Refugees were doctors, musicians, painters • In 1944 or 1945, when Flower was 14 or 15, there were 2 Jewish chaplains (an American - David Seligson and…
13. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… the United States Army and served as a chaplain, first in Phoenix, Arizona and then India. From March 1946-1947 he was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany…
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 … includes documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings illustrating Rabbi William Z. Dalin’s service as a United States Army chaplain, primarily…
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  • Series 1: Rabbi William Z. Dalin papers 1943-1968
    • File 6: Photographs: Wiesbaden and Zeilsheim DP camp 1946-1947
      • Pages: 5, 7
14. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.44 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0044
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1945; his role as senior Jewish chaplain in the European Theater; the plan for non-Jewish and Jewish displaced persons after the World War II; President…
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 … Jewish chaplain 15 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,330 in the European theater, the first Jewish chaplain ordered 16 00:01:21,330 --> 00:01:25,860 to Europe, and…
15. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial; hairwashing; Red Cross
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Film | Accession Number: 1991.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0057 | Film ID: 8
Date:
Event: 1945 April 23
Duration:
00:05:04
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Rev. Leslie Hardman was a British Army Chaplain at the liberation of Belsen.…
16. Oral history interview with Yehuda Mandell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.116 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0116
Date:
interview: 1982 February 18
interview: 1982 March 17
interview: 1982 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being in Riga, Latvia from 1934 to 1936; serving as a cantor in Budapest, Hungary in 1935 at the Rombach Temple while also serving as a chaplain in the…
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 … difficulty already because you are a Czechoslovakian citizen. How about if we do this? I will call the organization of chaplaincy." The Jews had chaplains just…
17. Oral history interview with Ernest Lorge
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.43 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0043
Date:
interview: 1984 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States. Army--Chaplains.…
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 …/1916, left Germany to US 1936; Rabbinical studies; after ordination, joined the U.S. Army 69 th Infantry Division; Spring 1945, first American chaplain…
18. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers
1995.A.1132 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1132
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1995
… Milwaukee. Rev. Dabrowski also served the St. Hyacinth parish, which was his last parochial assignment, as he then became chaplain of St. Francis Hospital…
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 …. Rev. Dabrowski also served the St. Hyacinth parish, which was his last parochial assignment, as he then became chaplain of St. Francis Hospital until…
19. Captured German officers; press; Belsen atrocities; forced confrontation
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Film | Accession Number: 1995.146.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2605 | Film ID: 1001
Film Title:
War Pictorial News
Date:
Event: 1945
Duration:
00:05:22
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CHAPLAINS…
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 … Jewish 39 00:03:43,330 --> 00:03:46,650 then a Church of England chaplain officiated. 40 00:03:46,650 --> 00:03:49,800 Medical authorities on the spot…
20. Oral history interview with Abraham Klausner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.12 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0012
Date:
interview: 1995 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Chaplains…
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 … chaplains for distribution to soldiers and for a moment I thought I would take out a few of these and hand them out. But as I thought about it I thought that…