Dwight D. Eisenhower Accepts a Jerusalem Bible from Park Avenue Synagogue in Commemoration of His Part in the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps Twenty Years Before
The synagogue bulletin said, “As a result of the decisions made by General Eisenhower during the fateful months of 1945, tens of thousands of Jews were restored to health and human dignity and given a fresh opportunity to begin life anew in other lands.”
Ike responded, “I was truly very deeply touched by the presentation to me of the Jerusalem Bible in commemoration of the events of twenty years ago.”
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On May 28, 1965, Eisenhower had been the guest of...
Ike responded, “I was truly very deeply touched by the presentation to me of the Jerusalem Bible in commemoration of the events of twenty years ago.”
Acquired from the descendants of the recipient and never before offered for sale
On May 28, 1965, Eisenhower had been the guest of honor at Park Avenue Synagogue for a Friday evening service commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. As a token of his leadership in the historic work of the rescue, rehabilitation and transportation of the Jewish survivors found in the camps, Rabbi Judah Nadich presented Eisenhower with a Jerusalem Bible bound in silver with an inscription upon it expressing the sentiments of the occasion. Listen here:
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower was unprepared for the Nazi brutality he witnessed at concentration camps in 1945. Bodies were piled like wood and living skeletons struggled to survive. Even as the Allied Forces continued their fight, Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited the media to document the scene. He compelled Germans living in the surrounding towns and any soldier not fighting at the front to witness the atrocities for themselves.
Eisenhower was the guest of honor at Park Avenue Synagogue on May 28, 1965 for a Friday evening service commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by the Allied forces. At the end of WWII, Rabbi Judah Nadich had been the senior Jewish chaplain in the European theater of operations and was appointed by then General Eisenhower to serve as his first advisor on Jewish affairs.
As the synagogue bulletin for the event said, “As a result of the decisions made by General Eisenhower during the fateful months of 1945, tens of thousands of Jews were restored to health and human dignity and given a fresh opportunity to begin life anew in other lands.”
As a token of his leadership in the historic work of the rescue, rehabilitation and transportation of the Jewish survivors found in the Nazi concentration camps, Park Avenue Synagogue presented to General Eisenhower a Jerusalem Bible bound in silver with an inscription upon it expressing the sentiments of the occasion.
Typed letter signed, on his Gettysburg letterhead, Gettysburg, June 9, 1965, to Sidney Rydell, an official of the synagogue. “Dear Mr. Rydell, I was glad to read your impressions of the ceremony at the Park Avenue Synagogue some days ago. I thought the solemnity of the occasion and the dignity in which the entire ceremony was conducted were exemplary.
“While I did not share your feeling of the need for any ‘cheers for Ike’, I was truly very deeply touched by the presentation to me of the Jerusalem Bible in commemoration of the events of twenty years ago. With my thanks for the kindly personal sentiments you express, and may I wish for you and yours the best of help and happiness.” It’s interesting to see the modesty Eisenhower exhibits concerning cheers for him.
A rare letter of Eisenhower concerning his part in liberating the concentration camps.
Acquired from the descendants of the recipient and never before offered for sale
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