Jack Bornkind photograph collection
http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn49875 an entity of type: RecordSet
circa 1942-circa 1945
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
irn49875
Jack Bornkind photograph collection
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The collection contains two photographs of United States Army soldier Private First Class Jack Bornkind in uniform and one of his grave.
This collection is arranged as a single series.
Jack Bornkind (1924-1945) was born on 31 January 1924 in Flint, Michigan to Nathan and Rachael Bornkind. He enlisted with the United States Army in 1942 and served in Europe with the rank of Private First Class. He was taken prisoner and was one of 350 American POWs selected from Stalag IXB in Bad Orb, Germany and sent to perform forced labor at Berga, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. After a 20 day death march, Bornkind died on 23 April 1945 moments before the POWs were liberated by the US Army’s 11th Armored Division.