On April 10, 1929, Nash was born in Berlin as Jack Nachtgeistin to Jewish parents. It is a family story that as a child, during a Nazi rally, he would not give the one-arm salute that demonstrated loyalty to the Reich. The family would later flee Nazi Germany prior to the onset of World War II.New York Sun, Jack Nash, A Founder of Odyssey Partners Nash and his sister were sent to a Swiss boarding school by their parents for their own safety before later immigrating to the United States. There he attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, New York, and graduated from City College of New York in 1953.
