Alexander Grothendieck                                 His father                                       His mother
                                                                                    Alexander (Sascha) Schapiro                        Johanna (Hanka) Grothendieck
Born March 28, 1928 in Berlin                       Born August 6, 1890, Novozybkow, Russia              Born August 1900, Hamburg
Died November 14, 2013 in Saint-Lizier       Deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942             Died in Paris, December 1957