German TV presenter Hans Rosenthal. He survived the Holocaust by hiding in an allotment garden in the middle of Berlin. He went on to become one of the most beloved and well-known game show hosts in Germany in the 1970s

Hans Rosenthal was born April 2, 1925, in Berlin into a jewish family. His father died in 1937 from kidned failure. His mother died in 1941 from intestinal cancer, leaving Hans and his younger brother, Gert, orphaned. They were sent to a Jewish orphanage in Berlin.

His brother was deported to Riga in October 1942 and shot shortly thereafter in a nearby forest. Hans also lost other family members in the Holocaust.

Hans was initially in a Jewish vocational training camp in Jessen near Sommerfeld in Lower Lusatia. After it's closure, he was forced into labor by the nazis; he worked, among other things, as a gravedigger and later as a pieceworker in a sheet metal packaging factory.

From March 27th 1943, he went into hiding in the "Dreieinigkeit" allotment garden complex in Berlin and survived in hiding until the end of the war. He was supported by three non-jewish women from Berlin: Ida Jauch (1886-1944), and later Maria Schönebeck (1901-1950) and Emma Harndt (1898-1977). Ida Jauch and Maria Schönebeck were later honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

He had his first appearance as a TV quizmaster in 1955 on the show "Wer fragt, gewinnt". His most famous show is "Dalli Dalli", which he hosted from 1971 to 1986.

From episode 53 onward, when a contestant on "Dalli Dalli" scored a particularly high number of points, Rosenthal would ask the audience "You think that was…?" The audience would then respond with "Spitze! (Great!)", while Rosenthal jumped into the air (you can see that on the second photo).

Hans Rosenthal died of stomach cancer on 10 February 1987.