Editing The Holocaust (section)

== The Military Service Department ==
The Department for Military Service Workers was founded during the Holocaust by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch in partnership with the Machne Israel organization. This department worked in various ways to inspire Yiddishkeit among Jewish soldiers serving in the U.S. military by sending religious articles, study books, Jewish reading materials, letters of encouragement from the Frierdiker Rebbe, holiday information booklets and more. The Rebbe MH"M headed all these activities.

==== Messages to Soldiers ====
The department, under the Rebbe's management, produced special "Message" booklets for soldiers and also sent them holiday booklets produced by [[Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch]]. These booklets contained messages that were igros from the Frierdiker Rebbe and content adapted from his words. The booklets also included igros and words from the Rebbe. The booklets received prominent publicity in the [[Kovetz Lubavitch]] publications.

The booklet also contained the first paragraph of Krias Shema and several chapters of [[Tehillim]]. This booklet included a letter from the Rebbe containing his father-in-law the Frierdiker Rebbe's words about the obligation to put on tefillin.

==== Reviews and Publication ====
Special reviews of activities with soldiers and the booklets were published several times over the years, including in: Sefer Toldos Chabad in the United States and Yemei Melech.

The book Yemei Breishis presents photographs of the Message booklets and includes the Rebbe's words from 1950 to a soldier about the booklets for soldiers.