 In 1937 he married Róża Perczykof ("Lodzia"; later known as Rose Klepfisz, 1914-2016).In 1942 he was put on a train to the Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazis, but escaped by taking out the metal screen behind the train window and made his way back to Warsaw.Soon afterward he managed to get his wife, sister Regina and daughter Irena smuggled out of the Ghetto (they survived the Holocaust).