Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
In 1939, he and his family were taken by the Nazis in the Kraków ghetto during the Holocaust. In 1942, he and his father were assigned to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, while his mother and sister were sent to their deaths. Dozens of his extended family members were murdered. He and his father were saved in 1945 by the actions of Oskar Schindler, whose story is memorialized in the 1993 film "Schindler's List".