Jack Eisner
Jack Eisner , born Jacek Zlatka , (born November 15, 1925 in Warsaw , † August 24, 2003 in New York City ) was a Polish-American author and entrepreneur. He took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and survived the concentration camps in Majdanek and Flossenbürg .
Life
As the son of a Jewish family, Jack learned to play the violin and received a scholarship at the Warsaw Music Conservatory . After he and his family had to live in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 , he smuggled food and weapons into it. In 1943 Eisner took part in the uprising in the ghetto and was then taken into German captivity, first to the concentration camp in Majdanek and then to Flossenbürg. From there, at the end of April 1945, he had to go on a death march towards the Dachau concentration camp , which many prisoners did not survive.
Eisner was liberated by US troops on April 23 between Stamsried and Cham . In Cham he founded the band The Happy Boys together with friends and other survivors . He lived there until his emigration to America at the end of 1949, where he built up an import-export company.
In 1993 he founded the Children's Memorial at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw , a monument in memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.
Fonts
- The Happy Boys - A Jewish Band in Germany 1945 to 1949. Aufbauverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02571-8 .
- The Survivor. William Morrow and Company, New York 1980, ISBN 0-688-03741-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jack Eisner, 77, Holocaust Chronicler, Dies. Obituary. In: The New York Times. August 30, 2003.
- ↑ Jack Eisner: The Happy Boys. 2004, p. 22.
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| SURNAME | Eisner, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zlatka, Jacek (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American author and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2003 |
| Place of death | New York City |