Orphan Train Rider 1918, Master Sargent US Army Engineer Combat Battalion, Double Deuces; European Theater, Germany, POW Camp 063 Stalag 12A to 9B Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08 Liberated 12/27/45. Oral family history has no mention of Jewish decent yet Fred enlisted as Jewish on his military service card. Personal supposition is the Children’s Aid Society encouraged children to hide Jewish heritage to facilitate possible adoption in the Midwest, which was commonplace at the time period. I am continuing my search for ancestors and am at a bit of a dead end because of orphan status of grandmother’s family. The serviceman’s card is the only evidence I have of the family’s Jewishness… – Shared by Jean Ann Easter