The JTA reports on a ceremony honoring Jewish World War II veterans and their families at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Speakers included WWII veterans: Henry Kissinger (Army Captain), New York City Mayor Ed Koch, (Army Sergeant), and Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney (Navy Lieutenant Commander).

The event coincided with an exhibit at the museum called “Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War.” The exhibit features Jewish World War II veterans’ eyewitness testimony threaded throughout displays that include battle footage, combat weapons and artifacts of life in America before and during the war.

It sounds like a wonderful event, I only wish I could have been there myself.  I encourage you to read the ful article from the JTA.  If you live in New York and you haven’t seen the Museum of Jewish Heritage, you are really missing out.  It’s a wonderful museum and the area around it (near Battery Park) has really been fixed up nicely.  It’s a great spot to spend a nice day outside.