He was ostracized as a child, not because he was a Jew -- his parents weren't very religious anyhow -- but because he had been born with two club feet, a condition which, in those days, required institutionalization and a succession of painful operations between the ages of one and 11.
Ele era excluído quando criança, não por ser Judeu -- seus pais não era muito religiosos -- mas porque nascera com os pés tortos, condição médica que na época requeriu internação e uma série de dolorosas cirurgias de 1 aos 11 anos de idade.