About this record
Jack Sneesby grew up in Lake Geneva, New London, Amory, and Berlin (towns where his father worked as a clergyman) before joining the 338th Infantry Regiment, Co. I. and being captured on November 1, 1944. After the war, expanding on a journal kept at the time, he wrote a memoir of his experiences as a prisoner of war at Stalag IIIB at Furstenburg and at Stalag IIIA at Luckenwalde, Germany. In the short selections digitized here, he describes living conditions in and an evacutation march from the POW camps. The entire memoir (described here) exists in paper form in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. These documents are made available online through a partnership between the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Public Television.Citation
Sneesby, Jack T. Memoir, ca. 1993-1995 (selections). Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Call Number: SC 47. Online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1640