George Marcus was born in the Jewish Hospital in Cologne, Germany, in 1937 and lived in the town of Vettweis. His father was a trained weaver but because of the Nuremberg Laws, had to work in George’s grandmother’s grain business. His mother lived in the nearby town of Drove, where George’s grandfather was a kosher butcher. She had just graduated high school but was not able to find work due to the Nuremberg Laws.
