Mandel was born in 1911 in Fürth , where he attended the Jewish high school and afterward a trade school in Nuremberg . He was also a player for SpVgg Greuther Fürth , a career that ended after a severe motorcycle accident . He later worked for a hops distributor . He and his brother began a textile business , which was destroyed in Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Jean Mandel