That's really cool!

I cannot imagine the determination of the people who carried these. My grandfather was infantry.

incredible heirloom

Probably not the case but I was imagining that there was just a standard prayer book aimed at Christians and this version was "abridged" by removing any parts that weren't applicable to Jewish practitioners.

Imagine being a Jew fighting against the Nazis in Germany, this guy had balls. I would had enjoyed meeting him.

He may have fought in the pacific.

My grandfather threw all of his military stuff away when he got back and never once talked about his experience. I’m always so curious about his time in the war, what it was like to be Jewish. He refused to carry a gun because of his religion, so he became a medic. I hope he had a prayer book like your grandfather’s.

Did you know you can request a family members medals from the military? Only the eldest child or something can request them though.

I didn't know that! My grandpa also destroyed everything from the war and never talked about it, except to his father who has long since passed. I don't know why this wasn't destroyed, perhaps for religious reasons or maybe he just forgot. Recently uncovered it in an old storage container.

I’ve thought about having my dad request my grandfathers medals. But I sorta feel like that would be disrespectful, since he clearly didn’t want anything to do with his time in the war. Maybe I should honor that. The curiosity is there though.

I think any child can get the service record. My mom did a long while after my grandpa passed and their was certainly some surprises he never talked about to anybody.

There was a lot of Jewish resistance.in occupied France.

Right-wingers would call this woke nowadays for acknowledging Jewish people exist

I’m pretty sure anyone that wasn’t a nazi at the time had big balls lmao drafter out of high school shipped across the world to fight people you can’t even understand

Double target for Hitler rolling around with this bad boy

That's so great you have it! I have my older brother's

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