By all accounts, Sgt. Samuel Moses "Moe" Hurwitz was a one-man army.
For Hurwitz, as for many Canadians, the war was deeply personal. The Montreal native went into Normandy in the summer of 1944 distraught over the plight of his younger brother Harry, who had been captured by the Germans when the Canadian destroyer HMCS Athabaskan was sunk a few weeks before the D-Day invasion.
A member of the Canadian Grenadier Guards (22nd Canadian Armoured Regiment) tank regiment, Moe Hurwitz fought major actions in France and Holland until, wounded and captured, he died in a German military hospital in October 1944.
Awarded the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Hurwitz, 25, was one of the most decorated Jewish-Canadian soldiers of the Second World War.
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