FACT CHECK · IDENTITY & HISTORY
Claim: Jews didn't fight in World War II
FALSETHE ANSWER
About 1.5 million Jews fought in the Allied armies: ~550,000 in the US Army, ~500,000 in the Red Army, ~200,000 in Polish units and ~30,000 in the British Army.
SOURCE
Yad Vashem, Jewish soldiers in the Allied armies
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