Through the Legacy Project at Mount Hebron Cemetery, we seek to honor and remember all the veterans who eternally rest within our gates. They risked, and sometimes gave, their lives for our freedom. Understanding the world these individuals lived in helps shine light on the motives that drove these ordinary people to do extraordinary things. This timeline project seeks to achieve that goal by using the information we receive from the public or can gather in our research about our veterans and placing them into the greater context of their era. We are attempting to provide more context to the world that these brave men and women lived in and why their service is so important even to this day. This is by no means a one-person job. A special thanks must be extended to all the individuals who took the time to submit information, stories and pictures about their loved ones. Together we will keep their legacies alive. If you would like to submit stories about a veteran at Mount Hebron, click here https://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/legacy/veterans/
Arthur Rodbell
During WWII, on his first mission in the Air Force, at 20 years old, Corporal Arthur Rodbell’s B-24 was shot down. He was captured by Nazi soldiers late in the war.
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Jacob Esorkowsky
During WWII, as a part of Company D 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry 4th Infantry Division, Jacob Esorkowsky landed on Utah Beach on June 6th 1944. The operation would reach victory by the end of the month but only through the dedication and sacrifice of the soldiers who led the charge.
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Joseph Dolgin
Five years after graduating from Washington Square College New York University, 25 year old Joseph Dolgin enlisted with the U.S. Army at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York.
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Irving Gropper
Irving was born to Samuel and Ray Gropper, Romanian immigrants who came to this country just after the turn of the century. Irving was one of 11 siblings.
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Joseph Dolgin
In the early 1900s, George Dolgin and Dora Tartell immigrated individually to the United States from Russia to begin their new lives. In June, 1911, the pair were married in Westchester, NY. Joseph Dolgin was the pair's second child and oldest son, presumably named after Dora's father.
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