related). Passover Seder Services

(HAGADAH

Engineer HQ, Fifth Army

Italy

1945

Vivid portrayal on front page of soldier's mess hall decked out for Passover service. Final page formatted as post card with address panel and square for postage stamp. In message area, an enlisted man penned the line: "This is how I spent Passover this year"

This program for the Passover Seder begins with: 1- Introductory Remarks by Chaplain Aaron Paperman. 2- A Message from Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott, Commanding General, [American] Fifth Army. "Chaplain Aaron Paperman, a thirty-one year-old Orthodox rabbi sent the first report to the United States about the remaining Jews of Rome. “ See Alex Grobman, Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry 1944-1948 [1993], p. 13. Paperman studied in Rabbi Levenberg's Yeshivah in New Haven and later in the Yeshivah of Telz, Lithuania