Today, May 25, is marked as Memorial Day in the United States, a holiday observed on the last Monday in May to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.
Jewish soldiers were among the scores of thousands of American and other military personnel who died fighting in World Wars I and II in Europe.
We have posted a photo gallery of dozens of images of memorials and monuments to Jewish soldiers who fell in World War I.
In today’s post, we honor some of those who fell fighting for the Allies in World War II.
Most memorials to Jews who died during WW2 are memorials to victims of the Holocaust.
But the two memorials we post today honor soldiers (and/or sailors/airforce and other military personnel) who fell fighting in the forces of the British commonwealth in WW2.
One is the grave, in the Commonwealth Military Cemetery near Orvieto, Italy, of Lieutenant Louis Henry Lottenberg, of the Middlesex Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment who was killed in battle near Citta della Pieve on June 17, 1944, aged 21.
The other is the memorial in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London that honors Jewish military who fell in World War II (and also WW1).
