Many Jewish Americans were mistakenly buried under Latin crosses after the war. Scholars are working to correct the record -- and their gravestones.
, had served in the war as a chaplain alongside the Army soldiers who liberated Buchenwald, then spent several months tending to survivors of the Nazi concentration camp.
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, right, co-founded Operation Benjamin to correct the record of Jewish service members mistakenly buried under Latin crosses. If religion couldn’t be determined, the military “would sort of default to a Latin cross” for burial, Dalessandro said. “It was completely unexpected and it was also such a great gift,” said Rabbi John Franken of Baltimore, who came to see his uncle Allan Franken’s Jewish marker installed — the first time anyone from the family had visited the grave.Advertisement
It was there that the 20-year-old Franken was shot in the face. He died at a field hospital May 24, 1945 — less than three months before Japan surrendered. “It was an honest error, but it feels good to finally be rectifying it,” said Rabbi Franken, 52. “There is an idea in Judaism that there is no greater kindness than that of the living to the dead. That feels like what we are doing for these men. It’s the eulogy they never received.”largest number of American World War II dead
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