Jacques (Yankel)
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Also known as Jacob or Jack, born in Nikoliav in 1891. He loved nature and gardens and had his own pigeons as a hobby. He left Russia with Simcha to join Maurice in 1910. They all worked together in a shoe factory on Rue des Amendiers in Paris. |
Dave Chayt recalls: Maurice and Jacques were drafted in 1914. Foreigners were taken into the foreign legion. My brother-in-law, Abraham Mendelowitz, went into the army and was wounded in the war, also as a legionnaire. They wore khaki uniforms. Their friends wore blue, bluish grey. In 1915, on May 9th, they let us know that Maurice was missing in action. They didn't find a trace of him.
Jacques Chayt With his Comrades - Campagne
Regiment - 1914
(Editor's note - 9/25/2000)
Both Jacques and Abraham Mendelowitz did return. Jacques was not
injured, but Abraham was hit by schrapnel in one leg. The doctors
wanted to amputate the leg, but Abraham refused believing
(correctly) that it would heal.
| Jacques met Jeanne Schubert and together with her
mother in 1916 they left for the U.S. where they were
married. Jeanne's mother later returned to her family in
Paris. Their daughter Fanny (Fay) was born in October
1917, and their son Albert Irving (Avrum Itzchak) was
born February 19, 1924, at home with the help of his
grandmother Clara. The family was hard hit by the depression due to the market crash of 1929. On January 19, 1945, he received the news of the death his son Albert in World War II. He was never the same after that. He died of a heart attack August 2, 1952 and is buried in Beth Moses Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York. ALSO SEE: The Children of Jacques And Jeanne Chayt |
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