Better known to Australian TV audiences as Sloppo the Clown, Ralph Horowitz rarely talked about his extraordinary past. Now, his granddaughter-in-law has pieced it together in a new book
As a child, Ralph Horowitz’s grandfather often lulled him to sleep with bedtime stories about the brave clowns who escaped the big, bad Nazis.
It was only years later that Horowitz realised his grandfather Michael, known as Kubush, was talking about his own past. A Polish circus entertainer for the famous Staniewski Brothers, he had dodged the concentration camps by performing for the Nazis, before fleeing to the Soviet Union, Africa and eventually Australia. There, he joined the cast of the popular Tarax Show on GTV-9 under the stage name “Sloppo the Clown”.
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