Jack Scott collection
Extent and Medium
1 box
Creator(s)
- AJEX, Association of Jewish Ex-service Men and Women
Biographical History
Jakob Schloss was born in 1924 to Baruch Schloss and Martha Schloss née Oppenheimer, in Gelsenkirchen. While Jakob immigrated to England, his father was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942. Jakob Schloss anglicised his name to Jack Scott, and became a member of the No. 3 Troop, No. 10 Commando, which consisted largely of Jewish soldier who had fled Nazi occupied countries.
Acquisition
Donated 28.4.2015
Donor: Scott, Jack
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the personal and family paper of Jakob Schloss/ Jack Scott, including wartime documentation of his own war service and his father’s deportation from France, and later documentation of memorials and tributes to Baruch Schloss and Jack’s commando. It also includes photographs of family members and memorial sites.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
People
- Sugarman, Martin
Subjects
- Family documents [doc]
- Auschwitz (entire camp complex)
- Jewish history
- Immigrants
- Memorials
- Deportations
- Press
- Armed forces
- Drancy (police detention camp)
- Adult education
- Genealogy
- Military decorations
- Correspondence
- Vichy France
Places
- France
- Weimar Republic [1919-1933]
- Wales
- Brussels
- Drancy
- Belgium
- London
- Paris
- Gelsenkirchen
- Great Britain
- Eastbourne
- Third Reich [1933-1945]