Timeline (scroll sideways with arrows below)
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Sy is Born on New York City's Lower East Side
October, 1924
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Attends P.S. 147, then Graduates Valedictorian from Public School
1931-1936
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Graduates from Stuyvesant High and Begins College at NYU, Age 16
September, 1940
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US Army Induction
July 5, 1943
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Camp Upton, NY
July, 1943
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Camp Roberts, CA - Infantry Training (80th Training Battalion, 17th Training Regiment)
July, 1943
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Ohio State - Army Specialized Training in Engineering
December, 1943
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Camp Campbell, KY (14th Armored Division organized)
March, 1944
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(Among topics in letters:) Shabbat services at Camp Campbell
April, 1944
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Trip to Chattanooga, TN - to Visit Brother in USAF
July, 1944
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Spends Last Furlough Before Going Overseas in NYC
September, 1943
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Attends Yom Kippur Services held at the Camp Campbell Chapel
September, 1944
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Departs from Camp Shanks, NY, as the 14th AD Deploys to Marseilles; Atlantic transport via the SS Santa Rosa
October, 1944
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Rhineland Campaign of the 14th AD Begins near Marseilles
October, 1944
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14th AD Enters Combat Near Rambervillet, France (Sy writes home via Army V-Mails, as possible, during these winter months)
November, 1944
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14th AD in Combat Near Strasbourg; Provides support in tank battle at Hatten-Rittershoffen, then counterattacks, sustaining heavy losses.
January, 1945
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14th AD Takes Germersheim on the Rhine (Sy's first V-Mail sent from Germany dated March 25)
March, 1945
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14th AD Advances across the Rhine and then the Danube near Ingolstadt
April, 1945
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After crossing the Isar River, 14th AD liberates over 110,000 Allied Prisoners.
May, 1945
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First of Several Visits to Dachau; Sy documents atrocities and provides help to survivors.
May - August, 1945
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Sy assigned to 14th AD Headquarters in Wasserburg
May, 1945
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At The Berghof, formerly Hitler's Mountain Retreat
June, 1945
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Assigned to 9th ID's Signal Co Headquarters in Ingolstadt
July, 1945
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Sy Attends USO Shows in Germany (and photographs Ingrid Bergman, Bob Hope and others)
July and August, 1945
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Assigned Again to Wasserburg office (US Military Government in Germany)
September, 1945
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Provides Training Sessions to American Troops, incorporating General Truscott's Denazification Directives
November, 1945
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Sy Adopts a Furry Companion; Wolf's Paw is Repaired at Munich Veterinary Hospital
November, 1945
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Corresponds with US Senator Joseph H. Ball, who sends materials to Sy for Orientation / Training Sessions in Bavaria
December, 1945 - January 1946
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Ski Trips from Wasserburg; a Holiday Ski Trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland
December, 1946
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Attends University of Basel, US Army College Program in Switzerland
January - March, 1946
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Ski Trips to Engelberg, Waldenburg and Arosa, in Switzerland
February - March, 1946
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Sy Meets and Befriends Mickey Lehmann, former Swiss Olympic athlete, who teaches Sy Swiss Ski Technique on Several Ski Trips
February - March, 1946
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From Switzerland, Return Voyage through France and Belgium via Freight Car
March, 1946
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Departs Europe from the Port of Le Havre
March, 1946
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Sails Home on the SS Frederick Victory
April, 1946
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Back Home in NYC for Passover and Easter
April, 1946
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Discharge Issued at Fort Dix on the day before Easter Sunday
April 20, 1946
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Sy graduates from NYU and becomes a Teacher of Industrial Arts in NYC
1947-1948
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- "What a Difference a Day Made"
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- Cigarettes
- Coming home soon
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- Earthquake
- Electrical work
- Engelberg
- Football game
- French people
- French women cooks
- Gabersee
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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- German people
- Germany
- GI discontent
- Goldfarb family
- Graves registration
- Hitler
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- Indoctrination orientations
- Ingolstadt
- Jewish DPs
- Jewish people in Switzerland
- Joh Peter family
- Lectures
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- Marseilles
- Max "Mickey" Lehmann
- Milk as favorite beverage
- Mr. and Mrs. Geller
- Munich
- Namur (Belgium)
- Nazis
- Orientation Lectures
- Payday
- Photography equipment
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- Points System
- Polish DPs
- prisoners of war
- Red Cross
- Russia
- Russia and her Ports
- Salami
- Senator Ball
- Ski weekend
- Skiing
- Snow
- Somewhere in Alsace
- Somewhere in France
- Somewhere in Germany
- St. Moritz
- Stamps
- Stars and Stripes
- Stars and Stripes Article about Russia
- Steak dinner
- Sulpher Springs
- Swimming
- Swiss Furlough Approved
- Swiss Watches
- Switzerland
- The Berghof
- Third US Army
- Trip to Switzerland
- University of Basel
- V-mail
- V-Mail
- Visiting Colonels
- Wasserburg
- Willie Hayett
- Wolf
- Wolf's Broken Foot
- Yiddish