Sally Tachauer, who called himself Stanley Tash after his emigration to England, was born in Bad Kissingen on June 13, 1909 as the son of the merchant Isaak Tachauer and his wife Regina, née Seelig. The family ran a spa board in Promenadestrasse. Sally entered Kissingen Realschule, the predecessor of contemporary Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium, in September 1919 and graduated successfully in April 1925.

Then he moved to Frankfort and started an apprenticeship as a merchant. His further life is only patchily known. The young merchant managed to flee to London in time, where he called himself Stanley Tash since June 1940. His parents and his two sisters could also flee to England and the USA, respectively.

In the 1980s, Stanley Tash was still alive as there is a hint on the homepage of the London Holocaust Archive “The Wiener Library” that he left a collection of family documents of the Seelig/ Tachauer families to the archive in October 1988. He died at the beginning of 1992 at the age of 80 in Bury St. Edmunds in County Suffolk north-east of London.