{"id":1710,"date":"2013-10-24T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/out-of-the-archives-war-heroism-by-kevin\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:40:39","slug":"out-of-the-archives-war-heroism-by-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/out-of-the-archives-war-heroism-by-kevin\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1710 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/out-of-the-archives-war-heroism-by-kevin\/attachment\/1711\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mugqzigNp71r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/out-of-the-archives-war-heroism-by-kevin\/attachment\/1712\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mugqzigNp71r3qmd1o2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Out of the Archives: War Heroism<\/strong><br \/><span>by Kevin Schlottmann,\u00a0<\/span><em>Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fred Lederman (born Manfred Ledermann, 1918-2003) was a baker by trade. After he fled Neckarsteinach, Germany for the United States, he was drafted into the Army and returned to Europe in 1944, where he earned a Bronze Star for convincing a German unit to surrender. The details of his heroic act are in the commendation letter above. From the Leo Baeck Institute&rsquo;s Pr\u00f6lsdorfer \u2013 Lederman Family Collection (<a href=\"http:\/\/findingaids.cjh.org\/?pID=1763249\" target=\"_blank\">AR 25554<\/a>). Also pictured above: Fred Ledermann&rsquo;s Bronze Star, Army dog tag with prayer scroll, and service ribbons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Archives: War Heroismby Kevin Schlottmann,\u00a0Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Fred Lederman (born Manfred Ledermann, 1918-2003) was a baker by trade. After he fled Neckarsteinach, Germany for the United States, he was drafted into the Army and returned to Europe in 1944, where he earned a Bronze Star for convincing a German unit to surrender. The details of his heroic act&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[716,8,460,137,718,38,717,416],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-fred-lederman","tag-history","tag-kevin-schlottmann","tag-leo-baeck-institute-collections","tag-military","tag-out-of-the-archives","tag-united-states-army","tag-world-war-ii","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}