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Robert Frimtzis

In June 1941, at the age of eleven his peaceful town was destroyed by the Nazi Luftwaffe and he survived the ravages of World War II by running for 3000 miles across Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan.

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Hunger forced him to quit school and get his first full-time job at the age of twelve, while his father, mobilized into the Red Army fought in the fierce battles to defend Stalingrad where he was wounded.

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In the DP camps in Cremona, Italy, he discovered ORT schools, where he and two others, out of 400 applicants throughout Italy, were accepted into the Central ORT Institute in Anieres near Geneva, Switzerland.

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