Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945 in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Harry Irving and Ilse Anna Maria Winkler, were Jewish immigrants who survived the German Holocaust, moving to the US in 1939. His dad was the president of an international lumber company while his mother worked alongside his father.Henry grew up with a high level of low self-esteem. Throughout elementary school and high school, he struggled with academics. This was due to what he would later identify as ...[Read Story]