Congressional Medal of Honor Society

18 Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients

Abraham Cohn

U.S. Civil War

1864 - Wilderness Campaign & at the mine, Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Leopold Karpeles

U.S. Civil War

1864 - Wilderness Campaign, Virginia, USA

Benjamin B. Levy

U.S. Civil War

1862 - Glendale, Virginia, USA

David Orbansky

U.S. Civil War

1862 - Shiloh & Vicksburg, etc., Tennessee & Mississippi, etc., USA

Charles Gardner

Indian Campaigns

1868 - Vicinity of the Black Mountains, Arizona, USA

Samuel Gross

Haitian Campaign 1915

1915 - Fort Riviere, Haiti

Sydney G. Gumpertz

World War I

1918 - Bois-de-Forges, France

Benjamin Kaufman

World War I

1918 - Argonne Forest, France

William Sawelson

World War I

1918 - Grand-Pre, France

William Shemin

World War I

1918 - Bazoches, France

Isadore S. Jachman

World War II

1945 - Flamierge, Belgium

Benjamin L. Salomon

World War II

1944 - Saipan, Saipan, Marianas Islands

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