Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Knoxville, Tennessee
Honored By
The Handelsman family
Served with the 422ND, 106TH. CAPTURED AT BATTLE OF THE BULGE. PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY, STALAG 9A AND 9B. On 27 JANUARY 1945, at Stalag IXA near Ziegenhain, Germany, he refused a direct order from the German camp commander to turn over Jewish-American Prisoners of War to the Nazis.