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German occupation of Holland, Westerbork transit camp; Birkenau, Auschwitz, Dachau, survival techniques, liberation; to San Francisco, 1950; U.S. Army, 1953; career in real estate; marriage to Fern Ellis; presidencies: Jewish Home for the Aged, 1970-1971, Bureau of Jewish Education, 1973-1976; accomplishments as president, San
Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation, 1983-1984; involvement in Israel, Jewish Agency board of governors; survivor activities: San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council's Committee of Remembrance, world gathering of Jewish holocaust survivors, Jerusalem, 1981, Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1983-1993; civic and political positions; honors.