 The family fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States on July 3, 1939, when Wyschogrod was ten years old.Wyschogrod associated himself with the Modern Orthodox movement within Orthodox Judaism, and the schools he attended as a child reflect this movement's emphasis on combining high-quality Jewish and secular instruction.He attended the Orthodox Adas Yisroel school in Berlin and then, after emigrating to New York City in 1939, the Yiddish-speaking "Yeshiva Torah Vodaas" day school in Brooklyn, New York, from which he graduated high school in 1945.