Jewish Chaplains and the Memorial at Arlington Cemetery

Members of a Military Cadet school in a moment of silence during the memorial dedication for the 14 Jewish chaplains who have died in service, Oct. 24, 2011, at Arlington Cemetery. (AP Photo)

The Jewish Chaplains Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo)

Chaplain Abraham Haselkorn at the American Cemetery in Normandy, 1945. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

Chaplain Hershel Schacter conducts religious services at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

A painting of the rescue of USAT Dorchester survivors in February 1943 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Dorchester is best remembered today for the four Chaplains who died because they gave up their life jackets to save others. (US Coast Guard image)

Chaplain Samuel Blinder and the Desecrated Torahs of Frankfurt, 1945. In the basement of the Institute for Research into the Jewish Question, which the Nazis established in Frankfurt as an intended “museum of a vanished race,” Blinder found a cache of Tor

Chaplain Emanuel Poliakoff leads prayers at the liberated castle that belonged to Josef Goebbels, 1945. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

1945: Jewish Chaplain Harold Gordon and Catholic Chaplain William Woods use dog sleds when they can’t get to the men by the planes of the Army Transport Command for Passover and Easter services. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

Chaplains School at Harvard University, 1942. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

Jewish Religious Service on Saipan -- The ceremony was held on the Island of Saipan after the Japanese surrender there. (Photo: Nat'l Museum of American Jewish Military History)

Chaplain Robert Marcus leads services at German “dragon’s teeth” after the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945. (Photo courtesy Jewish Chaplains Council)

Chaplain Ernest D. Lapp (Brooklyn, NY) reads from an enlarged pulpit copy of the Jewish Prayer Book as he leads religious services on the beach at Cam Ranh Bay. (Photo: Nat'l Museum of American Jewish Military History)