Jack Marchick papers

Jack Marchick (1922-2000) was born in Denver, Colorado to Russian immigrant parents, Sara Shaffer (1900-1930) and Joe Marchick (1898-1989). His mother died young and his father supported Jack and his two siblings working as the manager of a clothing store in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1941, Jack enlisted in the United States Army as a corporal. He was deployed to Europe and in April 1945, as a First Lieutenant in Company C of the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion, liberated a concentration camp, which is likely Buchenwald. He was the battalion’s only Jewish officer. Jack was discharged from the US Army shortly after in December 1945. He returned to the United States and studied at the University of California before taking a job as a salesman in San Jose in the 1950s. During this time, Jack married and had a daughter, Barbara Lee (1951-1996). He passed away in Palm Springs, California in 2000.