- He was director of the Rhine Ballet in France in the 1970s.
- He enrolled at the Paris Opera Ballet school in 1936. After the Germans invaded Paris in 1940, he danced classical roles in a small company in Cannes for three years.
- During the Nazi occupation, he adopted his mother's maiden name professionally. After he rejoined the Paris Opera Ballet corps in 1942-43, someone wrote "Jew" on his dressing room mirror. A French police officer warned him to leave because of his Jewish paternity. He joined the Resistance in Touraine and returned to Paris after the war.
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