Friday, June 07, 2024

In Normandy, a Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial 80 years later

Understandable! His soul did not rest in peace for so many years!

"... That all changed last year, when a tip arrived in the inbox of Operation Benjamin, a nonprofit that tracks down gravesites of Jewish American servicemen who were mistakenly buried under crosses. The tipster had recently visited a German-maintained grave site for Nazi officers, where the names of the dead were engraved on a plaque. 
There, on the plaque, was an unusual and Jewish-seeming name: Nathan Baskind. ..."

In Normandy, a Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial 80 years later - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

German and American soldiers at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany honor Nathan Baskind's remains after their excavation.


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