See photos of veterans including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Robert M. Morgenthau, and photos of Jewish services held by the U.S. military in Germany and France during World War II.
Carl Reiner with his immigrant parents, Bess and Irving Reiner c. 1943-1944.
Photo courtesy Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner at the GI JEWS interview in his Los Angeles home, December 2014. He is wearing his army hat and holding up his dog tags, which were marked H for Hebrew.
Photo: Turquoise Films
Dog tags of Max Fuchs showing "H" for Hebrew.
Photo courtesy Max Fuchs.
Max Fuchs (second from left in prayer shawl) stands next to Rabbi Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz. He is singing in Aachen, Germany during the first Jewish service to be held on German soil since the rise of Hitler, which was broadcast on NBC on Oct. 29, 1944.
Photo courtesy Max Fuchs.
Men at Rosh Hashana Eve services, 329th Inf. between Beaugency and Orleans, France. 1944.
Photo: National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Actor, writer, producer Mel Brooks, then Melvin Kaminsky, at age 19, in France, c. 1944. Brooks enlisted in the Army and served as a forward artillery observer and a combat engineer in Europe, where he deactivated land mines.
Photo courtesy Brooksfilms Limited
The official army photo of Bea Abrams Cohen, member of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), c. 1943.
Photo courtesy Bea Abrams Cohen
Rabbi Chaplain Robert Marcus with Jewish soldiers. 1944.
Photo courtesy Tamara Green and Roberta Marcus Leiner
Dahlia "Pobie" Paubionsky after training at Fort Sill. Her Sergeant stripes can be seen on her arm. 1943.
Photo courtesy Dahlia 'Pobie' Johnston.
Rabbi Chaplain Marcus leading prayer service in cemetery in France.
Photo courtesy Tamara Green and Roberta Marcus Leiner
Robert M. Morgenthau served in the Navy for four and a half years in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. He was Executive Officer on the destroyer, the USS Lansdale, which was sunk by German torpedo. c.1940.
Photo courtesy Robert M. Morgenthau
Sabbath Shebuoth Services, SER-COM Chapel, Bougainville, 1944.
Photo: National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Rabbi Chaplain David Max Eichhorn holding a torah saved in France and performing a Jewish service in the Zeppelin Stadium in Nuremburg, Germany. April, 1945.
Photo courtesy Mark S. Zaid
Group around Jewish chaplain's flag. Written on back: "end of war for 104th Inf. 1945."
Photo: National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Jewish soldier with a concentration camp survivor who was just liberated. 1945.
Photo: National Museum of American Jewish Military History
