Jack Terry

Jack Terry (born Jakub Szabmacher; March 10, 1930 – October 30, 2022) was a Holocaust survivor, psychoanalyst, author and public speaker.

Bełżyce was in the region of the Izbica Gestapo commander Kurt Engels, whom Terry witnessed commit several murders there.

At the beginning of 1943, the surviving members of the Szabmacher family were taken from the Bełżyce Ghetto to the Budzyń concentration camp near the town of Kraśnik in the Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland.

As the Red Army approached, he was moved to an airplane production site in the salt mine at Wieliczka, and finally to Flossenbürg concentration camp at the beginning of August 1944.

[1] Terry was saved several times in Flossenbürg by a prisoner named Carl Schrade, a Swiss trader arrested in Berlin in 1934 for criticizing National Socialism.

A U.S. colonel who was part of the liberating forces took Terry under his wing and helped to bring him to the United States.

He was a member of the board of the Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten (Bavarian Memorials Foundation) and an active spokesman for the former prisoners of Flossenbürg.