His family lived in France during its occupation. His father René was chief rabbi of Strasbourg and his mother Simone a poet. Both were active in organizing and supporting the fellow jewish men in the interment camps in the so-called “free zone” in occupied France.

1943 his parents were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau and killed after a death march in Mauthausen-Gusen.

His two sisters and he survived in hiding. After the war, they were raised by their grandmother.

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