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Oral history interview with Jack Sanders

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.33 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0654

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    Oral history interview with Jack Sanders

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Sanders (né Jacques Szakderman), born March 10, 1921 in Przytyk, Poland, discusses his family life and childhood in Poland; the naturalization of his family as French citizens; the family’s visit to Radom, Poland and their first experiences with antisemitism; the 1936 Przytyk pogrom; the first roundup of Jews in Paris, France in 1941; the first anti-Jewish measures in France; the notice to go to the Gare de l'est to report for work in German factories in 1941; his flight to Chalon-sur-Saone, France to the free zone; his detention by French police at the demarcation line; being sent back to France by Swiss immigration authorities; his return to an army camp in 1942; the French resistance; the sabotage of a French Navy fleet; the work of female maquisardes; his arrival with troops at the German border; learning to drive a tank; liberating Strasbourg, France; news from French police that his father had been detained in Drancy and later deported to Auschwitz; his return to Berlin, Germany with Colonel Clavier; his work with army intelligence services in Paris; his work investigating kapo abuses in the camps in May 1945; his assignment in Haifa, ISrael to guard crates of tractors, later converted into tanks and spare parts for planes used in Israel's 1948 War of Independence; and his immigration to the United States in 1960.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Jack Sanders
    Interviewer
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu
    Date
    interview:  2012 April 27

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sanders, Jack, 1921-
    Corporate Name
    France. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jack Sanders by telephone on April 27, 2012.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:07
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