Two of his sons had been machine-gunned to death by parachute troops; his wife andthree daughters had perished in Rotterdam's holocaust.
His research has been used to explain atrocities such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, though these applications are by no means widely accepted or agreed upon.
" Her first published poem, "Black Roses," written when she was 14, is about a nuclear holocaust.
A Jewish child during the Holocaust, he spent his early years with his mother fleeing from the Nazis.
All week the chatter was that Todd Haynes' lesbian love story Carol was set to collect the Palme d'Or – or that Holocaust drama Son of Saul from first-time director László Nemes would triumph.
In later years, he rediscovered his Jewish heritage, and in 1991 he produced and starred in "Never Forget," a television movie based on the story of a Holocaust survivor who sued a neo-Nazi organization of Holocaust deniers.
