Early Life
Leichter was born in Vienna, Austria. He came to the United States as a refugee from Nazi Europe in 1940 with his father and brother. His mother Käthe Leichter (1895-1942) was a leading sociologist and feminist. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and killed in 1942. The Government of Austria has conferred an annual Käthe Leichter Award in her honor since 1992. His father, Otto Leichter, died in New York City in 1973. His brother Henry O. Leichter, born 1924 in Austria, a lawyer, died in New York City in 2010. Leichter has two children, Joshua and Katherine, and four grandchildren, Memphis, Ethan, Otto and Theo.
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