The Jewish Soldier Who Led the First Prayer on Liberated German Soil
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February 2, 2021
For over 50 years, a framed photograph decorated a wall in the Upper West Side apartment of Max Fuchs and his wife Naomi in New York. The photograph shows an American soldier draped in a tallit – prayer shawl – who is praying before a group of Allied Forces soldiers, standing in the middle of a desolate field across from the ruins of an old synagogue. The photograph also shows an NBC correspondent holding a microphone in front of the solider, with black clouds of war peeping out from behind him. When Max Fuchs, the soldier in the picture, was[]
