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Approximately 11 days after the arrests, the city’s leaders wife Jean live in Prestons- were successful in gaining the release of Rudy and others from burg.J John is 84 years old, but Magdeburg. During that short time, approximately 25 of the his intellect, general health, and approximately 200 prisoners had died or been killed. At the vigor suggest that he is at least time of Rudolph’s release, the Nazis ordered him and the other a decade younger. I first met John survivors to leave the country within 30 days. in 2007 when we both served on the KBA’s Board of Governors. While her husband had been in custody, John’s mother, Gerta, had John’s life has multiple chapters, taken John to Frankfurt to stay with Rudy’s sister Mary. John recalls three of which I will describe playing with his cousin Bubi, Mary’s eight year old son. He also here: his early childhood in remembers being shocked when Rudy arrived in Frankfurt to see Germany, his work in the Civil that his father’s head had been shaved. Rights Division of the Justice Department in the 1960’s, and his 31 year career in Prestonsburg as the director of Appa lred, a legal The following month, John’s family moved to a refugee camp in aid organization. Holland and then they immigrated to the United States. The family left Holland aboard either the last or second to the last ship to In a 1997 New York Times magazine profile, the author described leave before Germany invaded that small country. John and his John as “5 feet 5 inches tall, 135 pounds – small even for a legal parents later learned that the Nazis had gassed Bubi, Mary, and service lawyer – and easy to underestimate.” People are naturally other family members. drawn to John. He is smart and friendly, and he has a good heart. John also loves the United States, a fact that he shares when he is The family’s odyssey ultimately led them to Gastonia, N.C. Rudy honored for his service. started out with an entry level job at a textile mill and moved up to become the facility’s office manager and a shift supervisor. John John was born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1931, a time when embraced his new life. He became an Eagle Scout and served as Adolph Hitler was rising to power. John’s family was Jewish and the president of his high school senior class. John then earned a lived next to a synagogue. His father, Rudolph (Rudy), worked scholarship to attend Duke. as both a school teacher and a lay leader in the synagogue. John recalls Nov. 11, 1938, Kristallnacht, “We watched as storm troop- After his graduation, John served for four years in the Air Force as ers proceeded to build a bonfire of all the holy books in the a navigator. While in the Air Force, he was part of a crew that synagogue, and then they dynamited the building.” The next brought a plane from England to the United States. After their morning, the Nazis arrested Rudolph and approximately 200 arrival, John and one of his crewmates, Abe Jenkins, were traveling other Jewish men who lived in Magdeburg and took them to the in uniform by train from New York to their homes in the South. concentration camp at Buchenwald. Continued on Page 4 2 | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 Kentucky is home to some champion fighters. The worst punches are often the ones you don’t see coming. That’s why more Kentucky legal professionals choose Lawyers Mutual. With 27 years of Kentucky experience, we specialize in providing smaller firms with the kind of expert counsel that can prevent an unexpected legal battle from turning into an all out war. Don’t place the security of your practice with another provider. When the fight is on, make sure you have the Kentucky champ ringside. 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He also assisted in secur- blacks are.” John describes this as “an inci- and he and Jean moved to Prestonsburg to ing grants to develop new water and sewer dent that changed my life.… I was outraged open a legal aid office. The Office of systems, and John assigned a lawyer to and aggravated and thought eventually Economic Opportunity, a Great Society provide legal services to the revitalized maybe I can help do something about that.” program, provided the funding for the community. office. John sought out Harry Caudill for Following his discharge from the Air Force advice. Caudill, who had written “Night John and Jean raised their two children in and after holding a job with a chemical Comes to the Cumberlands,” believed in a Prestonsburg. Their daughter Annie and company, John entered law school at the regional approach to the area’s economic her husband, Steve Sattich, live in Corydon, University of North Carolina School of problems. Today, 45 years after John arr- Ind., where Annie works as a social worker. Law, earning his degree in 1962. ived in Prestonsburg, AppalReD (the Their son Michael and his wife, Pam Wil- Appalachian Research & Defense Fund cox, live in Newport, Ky., where Michael is John then joined the Justice Department Of Kentucky) has 21 lawyers and 16 non- an administrator at Gateway Community and gained a position as one of eight law- lawyer members on its support staff.