Roddie Edmonds
(1919-1985)
American infantryman and POW honored as Righteous Among the Nations
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Master Sergeant Roderick W. Edmonds (August 20, 1919 – August 8, 1985) was a master sergeant of the 106th Infantry Division, 422nd Infantry Regiment in the United States Army during World War II, who was captured and became the ranking U.S. non-commissioned officer at the Stalag IX-A prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Germany, where – at the risk of his life – he saved an estimated 200 Jews from being singled out from the camp for Nazi persecution and possible death.
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20 August 1919 Knoxville, Tennessee
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| Died |
8 August 1985 (aged 65) Knoxville, Tennessee
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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