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Roderick W. Edmonds (August 20, 1919 – August 8, 1985) [1] 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 camp in Germany, where—at the risk of his life—he saved an...
Roddie Edmonds was born on August 20, 1919, in South Knoxville, Tennessee. While not much is known about his childhood, it is noted that he grew up with three brothers, graduated from Knoxville ...
Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (b. 1919) of Knoxville, Tennessee, served in the US Army during World War II. He participated in the landing of the American forces in Europe and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Together with other American POWs, including Jews, he was taken to Stalag IXA, a camp near Ziegenhain, Germany.
Aug 19, 2023 · Roderick Edmonds, a twenty-four-year-old non-commissioned officer from Tennessee, is one of just five Americans recognized by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel for his heroics in saving...
Aug 16, 2023 · While imprisoned at a German prisoner of war (POW) camp, the noncomissioned officer defiantly ignored the orders of a German commandant, subsequently saving the lives of hundreds of his Jewish-American comrades.
Jun 6, 2024 · Roddie Edmonds became the senior ranking noncommissioned officer at Stalag IX-A and was put in charge of the camp's 1,275 American prisoners of war.
Roddie Edmonds is an unsung hero of WWII. His decisions and commands as ranking officer in Stalag IXA saved the lives of more than two hundred Jewish American POWs.
On the 10th of February, 2015, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was posthumously awarded the prestigious ‘Righteous Amongst the Nations’ award from Yad Vashem, becoming the first American serviceman to receive the award.
Dec 2, 2015 · Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds has been recognized posthumously by the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center as Righteous Among the Nations — an honor for non-Jews who risked their lives to save...
However, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a soldier of deep Christian faith, would have none of that. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer held by the Germans at Stalag IXA, he ordered more than 1,200 American captives to fall out with him and fearlessly pronounced: “We are all Jews here.”
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