Army Won't Bury Holocaust Survivor

The Army has rejected an appeal by the family of Abraham Klausner, a leading advocate for Holocaust survivors, to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The family was told Monday that Klausner's cremated remains may be stored at the cemetery, but that his brief service as an Army chaplain did not qualify him to receive full burial honors.

The decision drew protests from Jewish groups and a prominent congressional Democrat, who said a man with his reputation and who witnessed the horrors of a Nazi prison camp should be exempt from the rule.

Klausner, a rabbi, was (WE are told) the first Jewish chaplain from the Army to enter the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated in 1945. After the war, Klausner became an advocate for survivors of the Holocaust, trying to reconnect families and writing a book about their experiences. More