Holocaust Survivor Jack Repp Shares Story

Joined by his wife, Holocaust survivor Jack Repp shared his story with the Club at the August 15th lunch meeting.

A day before his 90th birthday, Holocaust survivor Jack Repp paid a visit to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary Club to share his story.  Mr. Repp's tale, which he told at the August 15th luncheon, was a sad, yet inspiring, story of the atrocities committed against over 6 million Jews during World War II, and the fight for the human spirit to overcome.  Repp, who was sure to keep his sense of humor during such a heavy topic, had each Rotarian hanging on his every word, and commanded the attention of the entire room.

Mr. Repp is from Poland, where he was part of the resistance, stealing from a munitions factory. He was in various ghettos and concentration camps including Kielce, Auschwitz, and Dachau, as well as a death march. He was liberated by American soldiers and came to the US in 1949.