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Apr 14, 2019 · WINKLER: Yes. GROSS: And you had an uncle who stayed behind a little longer and couldn't get out, right? WINKLER: I did - Uncle Helmut. And he was supposed to escape with a submarine that was supposed - you know, they had a meeting place. And they - a lot of friends were going to get on this submarine and get out. And he said, no, no, no.
May 7, 2024 · In a 2018 episode of “Better Late Than Never,” he was confronted with his family’s Holocaust history and the story of his uncle, Helmut, while visiting Berlin. It’s a moment that he recently reflected on in an interview with The Times: “I stood in front of the house where my father lived with his brothers, Helmut and Alfred.
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Jul 22, 2022 · GROSS: And you had an uncle who stayed behind a little longer and couldn't get out, right? WINKLER: I did - Uncle Helmut. And he was supposed to escape with a submarine that was...
- Terry Gross
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He found his signature character in the grease pits of 1950s motorcycle culture and made Arthur Fonzarelli an icon in leather and chromium steel. If that wasn't boss enough, he rode the exact same Triumph motorcycle Steve McQueen used to jump fences in "The Great Escape" (1963). Fonzie was a character so unforgettable you cannot watch a retrospecti...
That Henry Winkler, his very existence, was once sitting directly in the path of history. That he exists today only because of the narrowest of escapes. Six years before he was born in Manhattan, his parents were German Jews living in Nazi Germany. It was 1939 and the greatest cataclysm in the history of man, a world war that would kill 70-85 milli...
His parents had long come to realize their homeland was turning against them. The streets were besieged with Hitler’s Brownshirts, who savaged the Jewish people. There was no future there. The Winklers got out and would mark their deliverance in the name of their son, Henry Franklin Winkler, the boy who grew up to become The Fonz. The “H” in Henry ...
Winkler’s parents took a ship to America, established themselves in New York City and gave birth to a baby boy on Oct. 30, 1945. His middle name, Franklin, would describe his parents' appreciation for the president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who they credit for the United States extending their visas. Henry Winkler grew up in ...
The Fonzie we know on television has a quality you can’t fake. He is cool. And cool would seem to come from a place of confidence. But he lacked confidence. He was consumed with self-doubt, suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia and a father and other loved ones who treated him badly. “I fought through being labeled stupid and lazy, and that I would n...
A decade as one of the most recognizable characters in television led to typecasting and lost jobs, but he never regretted it. “The wonderfulness that I got from The Fonz outweighed the trouble I had.” He turned to producing and directing, a made a living in Hollywood by other means. He also collaborated on a series of children’s books featuring Ha...
In one of the episodes of an evolving “Happy Days,” Fonzie uses water skis to jump a shark tank. To some it seemed the beginning of the series' downward slope. The expression “jump the shark” is now firmly part of the English lexicon, and Merriam-Webster defines it as “the point at which a period of success ends.” Did Winkler know he was jumping th...
Jan 12, 2024 · Unfortunately, his Uncle Helmut did not make it out and was murdered at Auschwitz. 3. Winkler’s parents helped found Congregation Habonim in the Upper West Side of New York City, and Henry became a bar mitzvah there and married his wife there.
- Evelyn Frick
—Henry Winkler describing how his parents escaped from Nazi Germany. From an interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air in 2019. Winkler's parents, Ilse Anna Marie (née Hadra) and businessman Harry Irving Winkler were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. By 1939, rising hostilities against Jews led his father to conclude that it was time to leave Germany. He ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Winkler says that lost most of his family to the Holocaust, including his uncle Helmut, who was meant to join Harry on his “business trip.” Winkler has long roots in the Habonim congregation in New York City
