Rohrlich was born in Vienna , Austria in 1921 . He was the son of Illy ( née Schwarz ) and Egon Rohrlich , a lawyer . His family was Jewish . His education was terminated after Austria was annexed by Germany in March , 1938 ( the " Anschluss " ) . For a time he did forced labor . ) In 1939 he emigrated to study at the Technion in Haifa in modern-day Israel , where he was awarded a Diplom in industrial chemistry in 1943 . He then began work in Jerusalem as a technician for the British armed forces . He was able to concurrently study physics with Giulio Racah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , which was his ultimate goal . In June 1942 , his parents became victims of The Holocaust ; they had been deported to the Sobibór Extermination Camp by the authorities in Austria
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Fritz Rohrlich