Although his twelve-year-old sister was murdered in the ghetto uprising, his parents and another sister survived in hiding and, in 1947, he and the surviving members of his family immigrated to Mandate Palestine.
اگرچه خواهر دوازده ساله‌اش در خیزش گتوی ورشو قتل‌عام شده بود اما پدر و مادرش و خواهر دیگر او در مخفیگاه زنده ماندند و در سال ۱۹۷۴، او و اعضای خانواده‌اش به فلسطین مهاجرت کردند.