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The Days of Darkness Are Passing | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
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In a war against Nazi Germany, no statement was more dramatic than for Jewish American soldiers to proclaim their faith on German soil.
Top Photo: Max Fuchs, New York City cantor, sings as Rabbi Sydney [sic] 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 United States. U.S. Army Signal Corps In late October 1944, a young war correspondent named James Cassidy fretted about an important story. Assigned to record a Jewish prayer service for American soldiers on German soil for a joint broadcast by NBC and the American Jewish Committee, Cassidy worried that the event might not happen at all. The rabbi who initially ag
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