Prayer book

Siddur received by 24 year old Bernard Kupferman from Holocaust survivors in Łódź, Poland, on February 17, 1945, after his release from a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag IIIC, on his way to the US military mission in Moscow. Bernard was a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, United States Army. While crossing the Meuse River in Belgium, Bernard and his battalion were attacked and captured on September 5, 1944. He was wounded and imprisoned in Stalag IIIC in Kustrin, Germany, and liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. He and a group of fellow prisoners walked from Kustrin to Poland and then to the Ukraine, where a high ranking U.S. Army officer heard about the soldiers. He arranged for them to be taken to a resort. In March/ April, following their recuperation, they were shipped home to the United States.