On April 25 , 1943 Laderman was inducted into the United States Army and served as a radio operator with the 69th Infantry Division during World War II . He wrote : We were in Caversham , England poised to enter the war . It was here that I learned that my brother Jack had been shot down and killed in Germany . The Battle of the Bulge , crossing the Rhine at Remagen , liberating Leipzig , meeting the Russians at Torgau on the bank of the Elbe were the points in this constellation that was filled with tension and waiting , victory and grief . We became aware of the horror , and what we now call the ' holocaust , ' while freeing Leipzig . During the weeks after the war was over , Laderman composed his '' Leipzig Symphony . '' This work brought him recognition within the army , and subsequently he was assigned as orchestrator of the GI Symphony Orchestra
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Ezra Laderman