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Roald Hoffmann speaks about the war-time circumstances of his life as a young child in the small town of Złoczów in Eastern Poland.  Born into a happy and loving extended family, he and his parents were imprisoned in a forced labor camp beginning with the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941.  As the risks to their lives became more severe, he and his mother, and several family members found a place to hide in the attic of a school-house in a nearby town.  Roald describes the conditions of the hide-out, and the enormous risks taken on by the school teacher and his wife who hid them.  Ultimately, it was the moral actions of his family’s rescuers that saved their lives.