Czech Memorial Holocaust Torah

In 2011, we restored our Czech Memorial Holocaust Torah. On three occasions in October, we joined together in small groups to rewrite a Hebrew letter in our Torah. It is the 613th mitzvah to write a Torah, and by joining our hand with our Sofer’s, we performed this mitzvah. In addition to restoring our Torah, we [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:40-08:00March 7th, 2016|CBB|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Howard Smith

Born in Cornis, Utah December 4, 1924  90 years old Volunteered for U.S. Airforce as B-17 bomber pilot.   Flew 29 missions over Europe.   Pearl Harbor 1:48- I was skiing and we came down off of the mountain. We were about 30 miles from home, so we stopped at a drugstore to get something to [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Leonard Rosenfield

Born in Minnesota. Volunteered for the US Army Was rejected from combat units (too skinny) Stayed in USA working for the Army on secret radio and communications projects. 4:03 He’s a certified art teacher, graduated from the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota and also went through Chouinard Institute out in L.A. and L.A. trade tech. [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Bernhard Penner

Born in 1926 in Germany in a small town , 89 years old. Enlisted in the U.S. Army. Served in the Pacific in the Infantry as rifleman. In 1938 I was one of a very small group of Jewish kids from Germany who were on a kinder transport. You’ve probably heard of kinder transports to [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Jack Nadel

Born Brooklyn, NY. 92 years old. Volunteered in U.S. Army Aircorp as a B-29 bomber navigator and radar officer. Flew 27 missions.   1:50-3:50- story about horse sculpture, study for a dream about horses running from east to west side of Berlin wall. 4:00 Born October 4, 1923 in Brooklyn, was 171/2 living in NY [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Oscar Lowenschuss

Born in Germany and fled the Nazis. Volunteered for U.S. Navy as engineer. Did not serve overseas. Supervised German prisoners in the USA and did training/jobs stateside. worked for Raytheon after service. Has 21 patents on various gadgets, equipment that the Navy or Army uses Was born in Vienna Austria in 1925. My parents had [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Benjamin Lipman

When they first called me I was 18 with the 18’s and we were for 6 weeks infantry training then we were distributed to different regiments which were going overseas right away When I was 18 years old I was living with my parents 1:40-5:31- Story about wife and how they met. 5:40- I was [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|
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