Four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a 1944 Nazi massacre in Distomo, Greece that killed 200+ people, including his parents. Sent to Switzerland as war orphan, he earned physics/math PhD at ETH Zurich and built new life in exile.
In 1944, four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a Nazi massacre of over 200 people, including his parents, in the small Greek farming village of Distomo. As a war orphan, he was sent to the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland. He later obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich, and made a new life for himself in exile.