Monthly Archives: April 2015
Report from the Front: Lt. Earl Mazo
In the first week of May 1943, Earl Mazo of Charleston, South Carolina, crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time in his life. The first time was 20 years earlier when he left Warsaw, Poland, with his family, heading for America. He was three years old on that first crossing and apparently the life […]
A Few Among Many: South Carolina’s Jewish WWII Veterans
In 1934, two months after I was born as the Bass family’s seventh child, my oldest sibling Bernie (Samuel Bernard Bass) enrolled as a freshman at the University of South Carolina. Six years later, he had a law degree and that summer opened a law office in our hometown of North in the western part […]
Temple Mount Sinai Cemetery
Pictures Taken by Stéphane Grauzam.
South Carolina National Cemeteries
Listings are of those veterans who are “Self-designated” Jewish veterans. They have a Jewish star on their marker.
Temple Sinai Memorial Plaques
Pictures Taken by Elizabeth Moses.Names on these plaques do not mean person lived or is buried in Sumter SC.
Temple Sinai Cemetery
Pictures of grave stones taken by Max B Hellman and Ann Meddin Hellman.Some Information for Father, Mother, or Spouse was Verified at Ancestry.com
West Oakwood Cemetery
Photographs and Data supplied By Joseph Gainey and Marsha Levin Poliakoff.
Jewish Section Floyd Greenlawn Memorial Cemetery
Sources:HJ Spartanburg Herald-JournalSCDC South Carolina Death Certificates Pictures of Gravestones taken by Max B. Hellman.
Forest Hills Cemetery Jewish Section
Pictures Taken by Julian H Preisler.