Complex sentence: Federman hid from the Nazis on farms in southern France during the Holocaust, later became a leading backstroker on the French national team, emigrated to the U.S. in 1947, and became an English professor, an expert on author Samuel Beckett, and a novelist.
Split into simpler sentences: Federman hid from the Nazis on farms in southern France during the Holocaust. He later became a leading backstroker on the French national team, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947, where he became an English professor, an expert on author Samuel Beckett, and a novelist.