Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Queen's College Journal of Jewish Studies; a Student Publication
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (2002) 150-169
Keywords:
Homar, Abraham S.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
The fate of Jewish American soldiers who were interned as POWs by the Germans during World War II has been neglected by historians. They were not only maltreated by the Nazis as Jews, but also abandoned by their own country. The U.S. government, although aware of the Final Solution, sent Jewish soldiers into battle with a large "H" (for "Hebrew") emblazoned on their dog tags. Based on interviews with her grandfather, Abraham S. Homar, describes the fate of a Jewish POW. Homar was born in 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an Orthodox Jewish family. During the war he was an air gunner. In February 1944 his bomber crashed over Berlin and he went through a number of German POW camps. With the help of a non-Jewish comrade, he was saved from being singled out as a Jew and sent to Mauthausen. Nevertheless, Homar was maltreated and beaten by antisemitic German guards. He was liberated in April 1944.
Note:
On American Jewish prisoners of war in Nazi Germany.
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