U.S. Army chaplain Herman Dicker from Brooklyn, N.Y., examines a damaged Torah scroll in the ark of the destroyed synagogue in Metz.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 40367

Date: 1944 September 26
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- France -- Jewish Liberators/Religious Services
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Keyword: ARTIFACTS
CLERGY/RABBIS/CHAPLAINS (JEWISH)
CLOSE-UPS
DESECRATION
DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM
DICKER, HERMAN
INTERIORS
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (JEWISH)
SYNAGOGUES/CHAPELS
TORAH SCROLLS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Provenance: Office of War Information

Source Record ID: 111-SC-197438

Second Record ID: EA 46163
: Record last modified: 2018-02-08 00:00:00
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