Sidney Shachnow (1934–2018)
Autore di Hope and Honor
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Sidney Shachnow was born Schaja Shachnowski in Kaunas, Lithuania on November 23, 1934. He and his family were moved to a nearby ghetto by the Germans, where they became forced laborers. At the age of 9, he was smuggled out of the ghetto under his uncle's coat and taken in by a Roman Catholic family mostra altro for several months. He was then reunited with his mother and his younger brother, who had also escaped. They settled in Furth, Germany in the fall of 1945, where his father, who had been fighting the Germans with partisans, rejoined them. They moved to the United States in 1950 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. He dropped out of high school in 1955 and joined the Army. Starting as an infantry private, he rose to captain in the Special Forces in 1962 and fought in Vietnam, twice receiving the Silver Star for valor. In 1970, he was given command of Detachment (A), an elite Special Forces unit that conducted clandestine intelligence missions in Eastern Europe. He led it for four years. His other posts included director of the United States Special Operations Command in Washington and commander of the Special Forces and commanding general of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. While in the service, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and a master's degree in public administration from Shippensburg State College. He retired from the Army as a major general in 1994. His autobiography, Hope and Honor written with Jann Robbins, was published in 2004. He died on September 27, 2018 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Nome canonico
- Shachnow, Sidney
- Altri nomi
- Shachnowski, Schaja (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1934-11-23
- Data di morte
- 2018-09-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Lithuania (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Luogo di nascita
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Luogo di morte
- Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA
West Berlin, Germany
Washington, D.C., USA
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA - Istruzione
- University of Nebraska (BA)
Shippensburg University (MA) - Attività lavorative
- military officer
major general
U.S. Army officer
memoirist
Holocaust survivor - Relazioni
- Robbins, Jann (co-author)
- Organizzazioni
- United States Army
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Combat Infantryman Badge
Silver Star
Bronze Star Medal
Purple Heart - Breve biografia
- Sidney Shachnow was born Schaja Shachnowski to a Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania. He was a small child when Nazi Germany invaded in World War II. In 1941, he and his family were sent to the notorious Kovno concentration camp, where they survived using bribery, their wits, and the occasional assistance of the Jewish camp police and local Lithuanians. He narrowly escaped death by getting out of the camp only days before the roundup and execution of the Kovno children on March 27–28, 1944. At 10 years old, he lived in hiding for months.
After the liberation of Kovno by the Red Army, he and his family fled the Soviets 2,000 miles west across Europe, often on foot, to seek refuge in the American-controlled zone in Germany. In 1950, the family emigrated to the USA, settling in Salem, Massachusetts, where he went to school for the first time and worked in the evenings. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1955 and served as an officer in the infantry. In 1962, he volunteered for U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets), in which he served from Vietnam to the Middle East to the Berlin Wall. He earned both a master's and a doctoral degree and became a much-decorated major general. Eventually he became the Special Forces' commanding general. He retired in 1994, after more than 40 years of active service. In 2004, he published his autobiography Hope and Honor.
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