I was born in Vienna in 1919, witnessing Nazi persecution when brown-shirted Austrians destroyed Jewish stores across the city. I fled with a forged Greek passport in 1938, evading Gestapo detection by pretending to speak only French, and married my wife Margaret during a two-day army pass before serving in Military Intelligence and Psychological Warfare. After reclaiming our ransacked Vienna home after the war, I became a director of the New York Cotton Exchange and President of the Importers Association, forever grateful to have escaped Nazi-occupied Austria for a new life in America. Come to Portraits of Survival to learn more.