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Max Fuchs, New York City Cantor, sings as Rabbi Sydney Lefkowitz, Richmond, Va. conducts the first Jewish services from Germany.

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    Max Fuchs, New York City Cantor, sings as Rabbi Sydney Lefkowitz, Richmond, Va. conducts the first Jewish services from Germany.
    Max Fuchs, New York City Cantor, sings as Rabbi Sydney Lefkowitz, Richmond, Va. conducts the first Jewish services from Germany. James Cassidy of NBC holds the microphone over which the services were broadcast to the U.S. Max Fuchs was a rifleman in the First Infantry Division but had sung in a cantorial choir in his synagogue in New York.

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    Max Fuchs, New York City Cantor, sings as Rabbi Sydney Lefkowitz, Richmond, Va. conducts the first Jewish services from Germany.

    James Cassidy of NBC holds the microphone over which the services were broadcast to the U.S. Max Fuchs was a rifleman in the First Infantry Division but had sung in a cantorial choir in his synagogue in New York.
    Date
    1944
    Locale
    Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 111-SC-195869

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    Mordechai (Max) Fuchs was born on Feb. 10, 1922, in the Polish city of Rzeszow, a son of Shaya and Tisha (Eder) Fuchs. His family immigrated to the United States in 1934 and settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After the war Max Fuchs became a professional cantor and diamond cutter.
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