How was the early life of musician Bill Graham (promoter)?
Graham was born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin, the youngest son of a lower-middle-class Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia prior to the rise of Nazism.[1][2] Graham’s father died two days after Graham’s birth.[3] Graham’s mother placed Graham and his younger sister in an orphanage in Berlin, as it became increasingly difficult for Jews to survive in Nazi Germany. This turned out to be fortunate, as the orphanage sent them to France in a pre–Holocaust exchange of Jewish children for Christian orphans. Graham’s older sisters stayed behind with his mother. After the fall of France, Graham was among a group of Jewish orphans spirited out of France. A majority of the children – including Graham’s younger sister Tolla —did not survive the journey. Graham’s mother was killed in Auschwitz. Graham had five sisters, Rita, Evelyn, Sonja, Ester and Tolla (Tanya). His sister Ester survived Auschwitz. She later moved to the United States and was very close to Graham in his later life. His si
