Bach was born on 5 April 1934 to Leo Bach and Gertrude Rosenfeld in a Jewish family in Vienna , Austria . Shortly after the events of the '' Kristallnacht '' of early November 1938 , Bach and his older brother Bertholdt fled Nazi Germany to England with British help in the '' Kindertransport '' . After arriving the brothers were put in the care of a British family . The parents reunited with their sons in Bath , England . With help of an American soldier the family emigrated to Burlington , Vermont in 1949 . Bach 's maternal grandparents died in Nazi death camps after having stayed in Vienna during the war
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Fritz Bach