Adolf Burger was born to a Jewish family in Kakaslomnic , then a mostly ethnic German village in the High Tatras region , Spiš County . His father died when Adolf was , after which his mother , four siblings , and two grandparents moved to the nearby town of Poprad . He entered apprenticeship with a local printer and typesetter at the age of fourteen . His mother remarried a Christian , which gave her the status of a non-Jew in Slovakia after the introduction of anti-Jewish laws by the beginning of World War II . The organization Hashomer Hatzair helped Burger 's siblings to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine before Adolf Hitler 's plan to exterminate the Jews materialized
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The Holocaust
Adolf Burger