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Bronx Private Hero From Lost Battalion Becomes Palestinian Farmer
Abraham Krotoshinsky once hailed as the Lost Battalion’s standout in the Argonne fights now tills a small Ekron farm in Southern Palestine. A World War I hero with the Distinguished Service Cross and Croix de Guerre, he studied at the National Farm School with support from Nathan Straus and Samuel Kaplan, who supplied cows and implements as he pursued farming in Palestine.
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Hrotoshinsky
Ger- Me Ous
Ermyg
Wiitlesey
Jerusalem
Argonne Forest
France
Abraham Krotoshinsky
Bronx
Ekron
Palestine
Krotoshinsky
Palestine Zionist Executive
Nathan Straus
New York
Samuel Kaplan
Argonne Wood