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1. A personal memory of Flossenbürg
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-09.025
Date:
creation: 1989
…Contains information about Leslie A. Thompson's experiences as a Protestant chaplain with the 97th Infantry Division of the United States Army and…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.01
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Africa and Italy
… a military chaplain from June 1943 to November 1945, and his account of the situation of the liberated Jewish communities of Tunis,Tunisia, and…
5. Rev. James Burwell Ficklen III papers
Document | Accession Number: 1986.31
Date:
creation: circa 1945
… Third Army under the command of U.S. General George S. Patton. He achieved the rank of Captain and served in the position of Chaplain. After the war…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Ephraim Urbach collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.4
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… in 1934. He immigrated to Palestine in 1938, and served with the British Army as a chaplain during World War II. Following the war, he served as a…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Weisberger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.242.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1996
undated: 
… Brith Sholom Community Center in Philadelphia, where he served until 1942. After chaplain training at Harvard University, he joined the United States…
13. Abraham Zemach papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0066
…Contains materials relating to the experiences of Abraham Zemach as a Jewish chaplain with the American armed forces in Europe during and after World…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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
17. Abraham Zemach papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-10.092
Date:
1945-1994
…Contains materials relating to the experiences of Abraham Zemach as a Jewish chaplain with the American armed forces in Europe during and after World…
18. 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…
19. Liberator clips
Film | RG Number: RG-60.6950.093 | Film ID: HMM258
Film Title:
Days of Remembrance 2010 Collections Open House
Date:
Event: April-May 1945
Duration:
00:11:45
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CHAPLAINS…
20. 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