His father died when he was an infant. His mother married (maybe lived with for a time before marriage) with Tobjacz Bialecki who apparently was very good to Martin.
His mother brought him to Vienna and he lived with his grandmother (Esther) and his uncle Salo and Aunt Clara. According to Clara he was a wild child and quite a handful. When he reached school age his grandmother could no longer cope with him and she sent him back to live with his mother in Berlin. There she enrolled him in the ORT school where the children were kept until their parents came home from work. It was like a day care center in the United States. At the school they were taught various trades according to their interests and abilities. When When WW2 began, ORT was able to send 102 students (106 in some sources), with 6 teachers (8 in some sources) and their families from Berlin to Leeds in a "kinderstansport" (pretending to have an ORT school in Leeds that did not really exist). On 27 August 1939 (29th in some sources), just one week before England declared war, the students, their teachers and the teacher's wives, boarded a train in Charlottenburg, Germany, eventually reaching England via Holland (see here: http://www.ort.org/asp/article.asp?ID=113, http://www.aort.org/newsstand/1999/9911berlin.htm http://www.ort-deutschland.de/pdf/ort9902.pdf http://www.ort-deutschland.de/pdf/ort9802.pdf
See "German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain", edited by Anthony Grenville. Available in google print: http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=strsfjTi2bIC&dq=ort+berlin&prev=http://print.google.com/print%3Fq%3Dort%2Bberlin&lpg=PA82&pg=PA84&sig=Hc427pit3ugsHq3AGtrdd6vWtsQ
In Leeds he was an avid zionist. That is where he met Ena, his future wife.
Immigrated to Israel in 1947
Education Details
Martin attended ORT Berlin.
Education Notes
See here: about Kindertransport too http://www.ort.org/asp/article.asp?ID=113