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	'''Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher''' (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor.		'''Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher''' (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor.

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	* MEMOIRS : ''Jakub's World'' (2005)		* MEMOIRS : ''Jakub's World'' (2005)

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	'''Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher''' (M / Poland, 1930)		'''Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher''' (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor.

	* <Flossenburg>		* KEYWORDS : <Flossenburg>
	* ~~<Memoirs>~~ ''Jakub's World'' (2005)		* MEMOIRS : ''Jakub's World'' (2005)

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==
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	"When German troops come to the small village of Belzyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenburg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp and the townspeople of Belzyce and Flossenburg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust."--Publisher description.		"When German troops come to the small village of Belzyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenburg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp and the townspeople of Belzyce and Flossenburg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust."--Publisher description.

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'''Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher''' (M / Poland, 1930)

* <Flossenburg>
* <Memoirs> ''Jakub's World'' (2005)

== Biography ==

Jack Terry (Jakub Szabmacher) was born in Poland in 1930. His entire family is murdered and Jaku experienced various concentration campa. Freed at Flossenburg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry.

== Book : ''Jakub's World'' (2005) ==

* Jack Terry (with Alicia Nitecki), '''Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust''' (Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005).

"When German troops come to the small village of Belzyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenburg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp and the townspeople of Belzyce and Flossenburg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust."--Publisher description.

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