Holocaust survivor to talk at Stratford College

But he was given up by his family at just one month old and placed into the care of a non-Jewish family, fearing that a newborn baby would be difficult to look after if they had to go into hiding. Nine of his wider family were killed at Auschwitz, and his father was a member of Working Group, an underground movement whose biggest single achievement was to halt the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, between October 1942 to September 1944.