Peter Masters was born on February 5, 1922 in Vienna, Austria as Peter Arany. He was married to Alice Masters. He died on March 21, 2005 in Rockville, Maryland, USA.
We Jewish soldiers, cannot help but remember what to us was a truly holy war fought against a monstrous system bent on destroying us, our families and friends, and indeed, civilized life on earth.
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When he turned 18, he enlisted in the British army and, after doing menial work for a couple of years, he volunteered for an elite 87-man commando troop composed entirely of immigrants from countries overrun by Nazi forces. All of them spoke fluent German, and most of them were Jewish. He took the name Masters and, like everyone else in his unit, burned all documents, letters and books that might have revealed his Jewish and central European origins. On D-Day in 1944, he and his unit were part of the first wave attacking the coast of Normandy. Carrying a folding bicycle on his back, he was the second soldier to jump off his boat and wade ashore.
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