He was one of the last remaining Italian survivors of the Holocaust. When he was 15 years old, two SS soldiers entered his family's home in Rome. He and his parents, his grandfather, his two brothers and sister, and his uncle had gathered to celebrate Passover. They were deported to Auschwitz; he was the only member of his family who survived. He was subjected to forced labor and weighed less than 90 pounds when the death camp was liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945.
