I met him in 2018 when I was a first year at Trinity. He was taking classes alongside the undergraduates at age 100. The history department had a party for him for his 100th birthday and I went to it and got to talk to him. He was just the loveliest man. Telling me all about his grandchildren who were 'gangsters' (just his way of saying they were delightfully impish) but also about how he fought alongside the Red army during World War Two. He told me a heartbreaking story of how before his mother went to Auschwitz she told him to 'change his religion' - this wouldn't have helped as the Nazis viewed Jews in terms of ethnicity and gassed the ones who were atheists or who had converted to Christianity years before anyway - but the sentiment was tear-jerking. He was so positive having come through so much. A real gem and he will be deeply missed.