Exactly 100 Years Ago: A Beautiful War Story Rabbi Dies Holding a Crucifix for Dying Soldier

At the end of the first month of the Great War:

August 29, 1914: an agonizing French Catholic soldier, in an infirmary bombarded by the Germans in the war front, asks a military chaplain, whom he believes to be a priest in a cassock, for a Crucifix. The chaplain was Chief Rabbi Abraham Bloch, who brings and presents to him the image of the Crucified Lord: moments later, both would be killed