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Le Chambon: How A Jewish Refugee became a Freedom Fighter in WWII

Walter Jaye, born Walter Jakubowski in 1925 in Berlin, talks about his time in the Huguenot community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France. He found shelter there during World War II after his parents were deported to and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. He was hidden by Resistance members during Vichy police raids and helped to escape occupied France in December 1942. He was able to enlist in the Free French Army at London in March 1943 as Wilfred Janey. He had basic training at Camberley, Surrey, and was then transferred to North Africa in December 1943. He was assigned to the 501 RCC of the French 2nd Armored Division stationed in Rabat, Morocco. The Division was transferred to England in March 1944 and was incorporated into a US Army Corps. Walter served on the continent, from Normandy to Armistice, with highlights of the liberations of Paris and Strasbourg. He received the Croix de Guerre in 1945. He then returned to school to earn French 1st and 2nd Baccalaureates. Upon receiving a reverse Fulbright scholarship to attend the University of Rhode Island, he moved to the United States in 1949. He graduated from Stanford University in 1952 with a MS in Electrical Engineering. He worked for forty years in R&D as an engineer and a manager for SRI International, the Stanford Research Institute. This is the first segment of the in-depth interview conducted by Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Associate Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies in collaboration with Jewish Studies students Noam Rosenthal and Isaac Kauvar.