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Sidney Shachnow was born on 23 November, 1934 in Kaunas, Lithuania, is a United States Army general. Discover Sidney Shachnow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 23 November, 1934
Birthday 23 November
Birthplace Kaunas, Lithuania
Date of death 27 September, 2018
Died Place Southern Pines, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality Lithuania

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1934

Sidney Shachnow (November 23, 1934 – September 27, 2018) was a Jewish American Holocaust survivor who attained the rank of major general in United States Army.

Sid Shachnow was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, on November 23, 1934.

At the age of seven, Shachnow was imprisoned in the Kovno Ghetto during World War II because his family was Jewish.

For three years, he endured brutalities and lost almost every single one of his extended family members.

To increase his prospects of survival, young Shachnow performed heavy manual labor under harsh conditions.

1944

He narrowly escaped death only days before Kovno's gruesome "Children's Action", of March 27–28, 1944, when Nazi troops rounded up all children in the camp and marched them to The Ninth Fort for execution or to Auschwitz to be gassed.

After escaping the ghetto, Shachnow lived in hiding for months, almost dying from starvation and malnutrition.

Shachnow fled west after the Soviets invaded Kaunas from the Nazis and began to implement Communism.

His 2,000-mile, six-month journey across Europe, mostly on foot, took him across Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and finally to American-occupied Nuremberg, Germany, where he hoped to obtain a visa to the United States.

To make a living in war-torn Nuremberg, Shachnow resorted to pirating black market contraband such as nylon stockings and chocolate.

It was during this time that he learned to speak German.

1950

In 1950, Shachnow obtained a visa and immigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, where he attended school for the first time in his life.

He took English lessons and worked in the evenings after school to help support the family financially.

1955

Just before graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army on January 10, 1955.

1960

As a sergeant first class, he entered Officer Candidate School and received his commission in the U.S. Army Infantry on April 12, 1960.

1962

In 1962 he volunteered for the United States Army Special Forces, also known as the "Green Berets", where he served for the next thirty-two years.

After joining Special Forces, Shachnow was promoted to captain and assigned as commander of Detachment A-121, his group was deployed to Vietnam's An Long Camp near the Cambodian border along the Mekong River.

Shachnow earned his first Silver Star for combat action there as well as a Purple Heart.

He was shot in the leg and the arm simultaneously.

After being shot, he applied a tourniquet to his leg and continued to fight, lead and care for his men in battle.

He recovered from his wounds and returned home only to be diagnosed with the tuberculosis, typhoid fever and several other illnesses from which he eventually recovered.

After recovering, he earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska, and the Army promoted him to major.

He couldn't attend the graduation ceremonies; he received deployment orders for his second tour to Vietnam.

1970

In the 1970s he served as commander of Det-A, Berlin Brigade, a clandestine unit of Cold War Special Forces soldiers on high alert 24-hours a day.

This covert unit was made up of selectively trained and language qualified members of Special Forces, as well as many Eastern European immigrants who brought much-needed culture, geographical and language skills to the assignment.

Their missions were classified; they dressed in civilian clothing made in East and West Germany and carried appropriate non-American documentation and identification.

Within Special Forces, they were referred to as "Stay Behind" Teams, the detachments that would stay behind if the Soviet Union ever attacked the West.

Their mission was the traditional SF mission, that of Unconventional Warfare (UW), to aid those who were subjugated by an occupying force, and assist those who would rebel against the Soviets (...to teach indigenous people basic warfare tactics and weapons use, and lead them in operations against the enemy, conducting guerrilla warfare).

Many of its members later went on to help form Delta Force (Det A did not itself become Delta Force).

Shachnow's status grew as Special Forces grew, rising to the rank of Major General, receiving both a masters and an honorary doctoral degree along the way.

He traveled the world, from Vietnam to the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Korea and back to Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Shachnow attended the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston.

While in the Army, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska, a Master of Science in public administration from Shippensburg State College in Pennsylvania.

He also graduated from the Executive Management Program at Harvard University.

1990

Sidney Shachnow has been an honorary member of Rotary Club Berlin-Luftbruecke (Berlin-Airlift) since March 13, 1990.

1994

He retired in 1994, after almost 40 years of active service.

Shachnow retired from the Army in 1994, at the age of 60, after 40 years of active-duty service.

2007

Shachnow was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment in 2007.

2010

The army assigned Shachnow to the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, where he earned his second Silver Star for gallantry in action after escaping death several times.

2019

He was posthumously awarded the Bull Simons Award in 2019.