Jack Fogel

A yeshiva bachur in Hungary before the war, Jack emigrated alone on the S.S. Aquitania from Cherbourg in early 1939, six months ahead of his wife Esther (who would follow on the S.S. Queen Mary). He enlisted in the United States Army and was naturalized while stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida (Certificate № 6119426). His petition listed Esther in Chicago as his wife. He was killed in action at the Battle of Flavigny Bridge in Lorraine on 11 September 1944, fighting with the U.S. Army in the Allied push into eastern France. After his death, Esther remarried; her second husband was David Schon, and her daughter Sandra was born in 1949. Jack's name lives in the family's memory as the yeshiva bachur who became an American soldier and gave his life in the war that took the rest of the European family.

A yeshiva bachur in Hungary before the war, Jack emigrated alone on the S.S. Aquitania from Cherbourg in early 1939, six months ahead of his wife Esther (who would follow on the S.S. Queen Mary). He enlisted in the United States Army and was naturalized while stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida (Certificate № 6119426). His petition listed Esther in Chicago as his wife. He was killed in action at the Battle of Flavigny Bridge in Lorraine on 11 September 1944, fighting with the U.S. Army in the Allied push into eastern France. After his death, Esther remarried; her second husband was David Schon, and her daughter Sandra was born in 1949. Jack's name lives in the family's memory as the yeshiva bachur who became an American soldier and gave his life in the war that took the rest of the European family.