- Auschwitz survivor.
- Was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2021.
- In Toronto he was a passionate speaker and educator who volunteered at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
- Was 15 at the time of his family's deportation from their home in annexed Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was liberated on May 6, 1945.
- Published his memoir "By Chance Alone". It was a finalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize and for the 2017 Non-Fiction Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature.
- After his liberation from a concentration camp he migrated to Quebec City in 1949 and was sent to Toronto by the Canadian Jewish community.
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