Jack Terry, the Jewish lad in Chaplain Thompson's story


Above: Major Gray and Captain Maundy at the Main Gate at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. The young boy at the right is Jack Terry, age 15. He is the young Jewish lad described in Chaplain Thompson's "A Personal Memory". Jack Terry was a prisoner in the camp and had been saved several times by Carl Schrade, a Swiss National, above. The final occasion was when all the able prisoners were ordered to evacuate the camp in marches to Dachau. Out of 15,000 who started on the marches, about 4,000 died. Schrade saved Jack by hiding him in the typhus ward of the hospital. In 1995 Jack Terry is a psychiatrist in Manhattan, New York.
 

During the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, a group of survivors and their families stayed at the Goldener Löwe Hotel in Floss. Each evening they ate together and had good discussions and fellowship. Above: left to right; Jack Terry, his daughter Deborah, the daughter and son of Julian and Frieda Noga and then Frieda and Julian Noga. Julian Noga was a survivor of Flossenbürg and currently lives in Utica, N. Y. and owns a funeral monument business.
The photo on the left was signed "To Major Grey in remembrance of our work after the destruction of the Nazi Regime. Signed: C. Schrade, an inmate in charge of sick prisoners in the hospital, Concentration Camp Flossenbürg, 30 May 1945. Not Sing-Sing, but 11 years as the prisoner of Fascism in the German Concentration Camps." Schrade saved Jack Terry's life several times.

In the 3rd paragraph of Chaplain Thompson's "A Personal Memory of Flossenbürg", he describes his encounter with a young Jewish lad of about thirteen or fourteen years of age. When reading this story, it occurred to Bob Hacker that this lad might be Jack Terry, a Flossenberg survivor, whom he had met during the 50th Anniversary celebrations of its liberation. Terry is currently a psychiatrist in New York City. Bob Hacker contacted Terry and he confirmed that he was the lad described by the former Chaplain.
A Personal Memory of Flossenbürg by Chaplain Thompson
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