Wulf Grajonca / Bill Graham (M / Germany, 1931-1991), Holocaust survivor

Wulf Grajonca / Bill Graham (M / Germany, 1931-1991), Holocaust survivor

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Biography

Wulf Wolodi Grajonca was born January 8, 1931 in Berlin, Germany. On July 4, 1939, he was sent from Germany to France to escape the Nazis. He was hosted at the Chateau de Quincy and later, at the Chateau de Chaumont. He reached the United Stated aboard the SS Serpa Pinto (September 1941).

At age 10, he settled into a foster home in the Bronx, New York.

Graham graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and subsequently from City College with a business degree. He became a successful impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash.