Holder of History - The Jack Holder Story

26/11/2021

03/02/2021

2nd Covid-19 vaccine shot? Check! 💪 A Great and Grateful day for Jack and those who care about him. 🙏

02/02/2021

A look at Jack doing a live presentation via Zoom.

27/01/2021

REFLECTIONS FROM A LIBERATOR |

At the WWII Veterans History Project, we remember the Holocaust by preserving the memories of the American soldiers who witnessed the N**i horrors firsthand and liberated the infamous concentration camps in the final months of WWII. One of those soldiers was Julius Haberman, a Technician Fifth Grade serving with the 69th Infantry Division. On April 19, 1945, Julius and his unit discovered Leipzig-Thekla, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which, at its height, held approximately 1,400 prisoners. When the men of the 69th reached the camp, there were fewer than 100 survivors.

The surviving prisoners were suffering from severe malnutrition, typhus, malaria, dysentery, among dozens of other deadly illnesses and epidemics. "I felt very badly for what they were going through and what I had seen," Julius remembered. "Mounds of bodies were on the other side of the camp there…it was difficult."

As a Jewish soldier, he expressed how personal the liberation was for him. "I knew that these prisoners were Jews that were on the other side of the fence. I really couldn't speak to them much, but I could say a few words because I knew Yiddish and was able to speak a little bit and be an interpreter."

Infantrymen like Julius didn't remain at the camp long, but he vividly remembered how they "gave the prisoners as many ci******es as we could, as much chocolate as we could, and any food that we had."

"Giving the Past a Future, One Story at a Time."
WWII Veterans History Project
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14/01/2021

Jack got a real shot in the arm today! 🙏 Thank God. He’s been so anxious to get the Covid-19 vaccine. 💪👍

01/01/2021

16/12/2020

Jack Holder, World War II Hero/Pearl Harbor Survivor Celebrates his 99th Birthday with a Surprise Parade driving by his home.

08/12/2020

Thank you to the awesome men and women of the VFW Post 9399 and Auxiliary for your kindness, respect, good conversation,and safe passage for Jack Holder on this day unlike any other for him and other Pearl Harbor Survivors. Thank all of you for your service and sacrifice in America's foreign wars. And more special thanks to our special friend, new Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame Inductee Darlene Tryon for making this heartfelt invitation happen on short notice.

07/12/2020

Private ceremony with Pearl Harbor Survivor Jack Holder at the USS Arizona Memorial in Phoenix, AZ in remembrance of the 79th Anniversary of the Japanese Attacks on Pearl Harbor he witnessed, fought, and survived.

27/11/2020

“Friends are Family You Choose.” Giving thanks together here are: Thomas Baldrick, Julian Baldrick, Jack Holder, Dennis Gardner.

KNOW THIS, when it’s your 98th Thanksgiving & you’ve survived the Pearl Harbor Attacks...& you’ve survived the Battles of Midway, Guadalcanal, and countless others in WWII...& you’ve survived Covid-19...you get to have 2 different desserts as Jack did. 👏💪🙏❤️

Happy Thanksgiving!

16/11/2020

The Hull Elementary School Heroes of the Chandler Unified School District welcome U.S. Navy Aviator and Pearl Harbor Survivor Jack Holder for a special visit. He was the Lakes Rotary Club, Arizona USA delivering dictionaries for 3rd graders.

10/11/2020

30/10/2020

01/10/2020

Thanks to FOX 10 Phoenix & Bailey Miller FOX10 for their efforts in covering Jack’s part in Operation Thank You with Spirit of Liberty Foundation.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/operation-thank-you-travels-to-phoenix-to-thank-first-responders-veterans

Veterans, health care workers and first responders were shown appreciation by "Operation Thank You" at a ceremony on Sept. 30 in Phoenix.

28/09/2020

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