By COLlive staff
In honor of the 75th D-Day Anniversary, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, director of Chabad Mineola, made a special appreciation visit to WW2 Omaha Beach US Veteran Irving Goodman.
Goodman, who survived the horrors of Normandy, was eager to put on tefillin to honor all his colleagues who lost their lives that day.
Rabbi Perl also shared his own memories of Normandy.
As a student at the Chabad Yeshiva in Brunoy near Paris, Rabbi Perl’s travels from London to Paris were via Calais, with a coach ride across the French countryside that always included a stop at the Normandy military cemeteries.
All the yeshiva boys made it a priority to get off the coach and say Tehillim at the gravesites of all the Jewish soldiers, Rabbi Perl says.
“The sheer numbers of plots, across so many miles, brought home to me the self-sacrifice of all the soldiers who lost their lives for our freedoms today,” Rabbi Perl says.
