They were both born in 1925 in the city of Lodz, in Poland. During World War II, they joined the youth underground in the Lodz ghetto. Later on, my father was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Mauthausen, while my mother was in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Salzwedel. In 1958, when I was three, we made aliyah and moved to Israel.
My father worked in the civil service for 30 years, as an economist in the Budgets Department of the Ministry of Finance, as an economic advisor to the Knesset Finance Committee, as an economic Consul in Zurich and at the Israeli Embassy in Bonn. My mother worked around the clock as a pediatrician.