Born in 1925 in Cologne, Germany

Second Son of 5 Boys in Family; Father was a Rabbi

Fled to Strassbourg, France, as soon as Hitler came to power in 1933

Father was Rabbi of Community in Vichy France until government fell to Nazis in 1940

Moved with family to various places in France

Finally fled to Switzerland in 1942

Left Switzerland for U.S. in 1947

Educated in U.S., where he raised his family

Jews in Germany before and during WW II

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005276

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005469

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005201

France in WW II

http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/entries/english/18.asp

Jews in Vichy France

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005429

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/VichyRegime.html

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/stlouis/teach/supread2.htm#three

Jews fleeing to Switzerland

http://www.iht.com/articles/1999/12/11/swiss.2.t_3.php