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Aben S. Caplan |
| World War, 1939-1945
Army
Company I, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
Italy; France; Germany
Technical Sergeant
Yes
IL
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When infantryman Aben Caplan was taken prisoner on the German side of the Rhine in January 1945, he was lucky in that he spoke German and could communicate with his captors. What he didn't want to tell them, however, was that he was Jewish. Caplan found other Jews among the prisoner population, and in one of the many camps in which they lived, they were even able to hold religious services. His stories are vividly told in a series of letters he wrote to his wife and son in the last two months of the war, many of the details culled from a coded diary he kept.
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