Overview
- Interview Summary
- Jack (Jacek) Sandberg discusses his family's farm near Chortkiv, Poland (present day Ukraine), the Russian invasion in 1939; the German invasion in 1941; his birth into a wealthy Jewish family who owned flour mill; being conscripted into the Red Army in 1941; the Nazis occupation of his hometown in 1943 and the confiscation of his family farm; the round up all Jews in surrounding areas; the murder of his father, mother, and younger sister Sabina; his escape from the Red Army in 1944; how his rescuer encouraged him to burn his military uniform and go into hiding; learning about his family's execution; fleeing to Bukovina, Romania to stay with his uncle, a doctor who had not been forced into hiding; his three months in hiding in his uncle's home; meeting his future wife Gira (née Rosenrauch); and learning that her entire family had been shot by Nazis.
- Interviewee
- Jack Sandberg
- Interviewer
- Rick Sands
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rick Sands
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Hiding places--Romania. Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish families--Ukraine--Chortkiv. Jewish soldiers--Personal narratives. Jews--Ukraine--Chortkiv. Military deserters--Soviet Union. Military uniforms. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. World War, 1939-1945--Desertions--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Armed Forces--Soviet Union. Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Chortkiv (Ukraine) Montréal (Québec) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Personal Name
- Sandberg, Jack, 1914-2012.
- Corporate Name
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Rick Sands donated the oral history interview with Jack Sandberg to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2017.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:41:22
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