Dossier
Operation Benjamin
Coverage of Operation Benjamin in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Freedoms are never free’: A Jewish American soldier buried with Nazis finally laid to rest with US troops
U.S. 1st Lieutenant Nathan Baskind, a Jewish American soldier killed in the 1944 Battle of Cherbourg and initially buried in a mass grave with Nazi soldiers, was reburied in the Normandy American Cemetery. Operation Benjamin, a nonprofit, identified his remains after decades and connected his family, including great-niece Samantha Baskind, to his long-lost story.