He was ostracized as a child, not because he was a Jew -- his parents weren't very religious anyhow -- but because he had been born with two club feet, a condition which, in those days, required institutionalization and a succession of painful operations between the ages of one and 11.
Prognan je kao dijete, ne zato što je bio Židov – njegovi roditelji ionako nisu bili pretjerano religiozni – nego zato što je rođen s dva kriva stopala, a to je stanje koje je u to doba zahtjevalo institucionalizaciju i niz bolnih operacija između prve i jedanaeste godine života.