- After the war, he joined a small orchestra of former camp inmates. They played at a monastery near Munich serving as a hospital. With help from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, he went to the US. There he auditioned for Efrem Zimbalist, the violin virtuoso who was director of the Curtis Institute of Music, and was admitted as a student.
- He began studying violin at age 7. After the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, he and his family fled, but were captured in 1941. He never saw his family again. He survived seven concentration camps.
- He played with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1959, became associate concertmaster in 1979, and retired in 1993.
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