As an adult, and while fully engaged in his professional activities, he conducted myriad interviews of survivors and his family, and extensively documented all their photographs and history. From the time Feldman was a child, he developed a passion for collecting stories and photographs of his extensive and exceptional family history. Fred attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate and Purdue University where he received a PhD in biochemistry. He arrived at age seven with his family in the United States, unable to speak English, and went through public school systems from kindergarten through high school. After the war, as Holocaust survivors, they eventually escaped the Soviet Union, to refugee collection centers in Poland, and were transferred to several displaced persons camps in Austria, where they remained for three years trying to obtain visas to immigrate to the United States. Fred Feldman was born near Baku, Azerbaijan, as his family was fleeing from the German army during World War II.
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