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December 3, 2015

The American POW Who Saved His Jewish Fellow Prisoners from the Nazis

“We are all Jews here.”

Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge, and placed with over 1,000 other Americans soldiers in a POW camp. His actions there, which put his own life at risk, probably saved the lives of some 200 Jewish prisoners. Now, 30 years after his death, he is being honored by Yad Vashem as one of the “righteous among the nations.” Aron Heller writes:

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