Munich (dpa / lby) - The Bavarian Memorials Foundation mourns the loss of its long-standing member Jack Terry. The former spokesman for the former prisoners of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the Upper Palatinate died on October 30 at the age of 92. "The news of Jack Terry's death shocks us deeply. Germany has lost an important eyewitness and we have lost a committed comrade-in-arms," said director Karl Freller on Friday.
Minister of Education Michael Piazolo (Free Voters), as Chairman of the Foundation Council, spoke of a great loss. Terry was a warning against forgetting the Nazi terror. "With his story and his personality, he stood for tolerance and reconciliation. We will miss his voice." Terry's legacy is to be understood as a mandate to "act against war, violence and discrimination here and now."
Terry, born in Poland in 1930, was taken to the Flossenbürg concentration camp (Neustadt an der Waldnaab district) in 1944 at the age of 14. There he experienced the liberation by the Americans in 1945. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. A US family adopted the boy. Since 1995 he has returned regularly to Flossenbürg on the occasion of the anniversaries of the liberation.
