Manuscript Database - Subject: Perley, Martin, 1910-2003. Added Papers, 1942-1946. 1 cu. ft.

Perley, Martin, 1910-2003. Added Papers, 1942-1946. 1 cu. ft.

Rabbi Martin Perley served as an Army Chaplain during the second world war. His papers stall with his being recruited by the Jewish Welfare League to be a Chaplain in 1942 and end with his service overseas in 1946. His service includes Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana, Fort Custer in Michigan and Iwo Jima in the Pacific. The papers deal mostly with counseling soldiers and preparing for the Jewish High Holy Days. He also encounters some German Jewish prisoners of war at Fort Custer and wrote an article for the Jewish press about the prisoners.