sentences:  From 1937 to 1939 he served in Egypt and Palestine.He served in Egypt during the early stages of World War II, and in Alexandria he met Greek-born Nitza Lemonia Asnay; he was captured at Tobruk in 1941 and spent the rest of the war in prisoner of war camps in Italy and Germany.In 1946 he married Nitza Asnay (1920-2002).