I’m thinking it’s Easter, be kind. He sounds like he had a tough background, he prob is tough.
“Simmons was born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Flóra Kovács (later Florence Klein then Lubowski) (1925–2018) was born in Jánd and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps. from November 1944 to her liberation from the Mauthausen camp in Austria on May 5, 1945. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons’ father, Ferenc “Feri” Yehiel Witz (1925–2002), was a carpenter whom Klein married in 1946 and the couple moved to Israel the following year. Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household. He has said that his family was “dirt poor”, scraping by on rationed bread and milk. At the age of seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Simmons
He sounds like someone who should have known better than to be a totalitarian.