As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.

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As the son of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, both of whom survived the Auschwitz death camp, he knew more than many of what he spoke.

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He has survived a bout of cancer and stoically endured the death of his first wife.

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She survived with minor injuries, he said, but rumors of her death had inflamed mobs who launched the attacks Tuesday.

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He pulled out of the 2002 Cheltenham Festival following the death of one of his brothers in a car crash only a month after he survived a crash of his own.

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