Imo Moszkowicz was born in 1925 in Ahlen, Germany, as the son of a Russian-Jewish shoemaker. His autobiography "The Breaking Day", first published in 1998, is about his childhood in Nazi-Germany. He was the only one of seven children to survive the Holocaust. His father emigrated to Argentina in 1938. Father and son met there again in 1951. In 1943, Imo and one of his brothers were the last of the family to be deported to Auschwitz. Until January 1945, Imo Moszkowicz was a prisoner at the concentration camp Auschwitz. At the beginning of 1945, he and other inmates were sent on the infamous death march. In May 1945, he was rescued by Russian forces in Liberec. After the war, Imo Moszkowicz became a well-known director for theatre, film and television. He was married to Renate Dadieu and had two children with her: Martin and Daniela. Imo Moszkowicz passed away in 2011 in Munich.