Thanks, he was a tough old bird at 86 y/o.
He was also a German who helped stifle the Nazi's advance in the Warsaw ghetto, and held them off for weeks with confiscated weapons they took from their kills.
He was a war hero without ever wearing a uniform.
He escaped warsaw by sneaking onto a train and hid in a farmers field in the former Yugoslavia among sheep and other livestock.
The farm he hid in was taken over by nazi officers that killed the owners but kept their daughters as slaves.
He finally helped the girls escape one night when they entered the barn to tend the animals.
They had no willpower to leave and it was hard for him to motivate them as their spirit was broken and they were very afraid.
He assured them they would be fine and he got them to follow him to an abandoned burned out farm 15 miles away.
They lived there for months by hunting small game and drinking from a spring.