"My father, my mother and I were each hidden from the Germans in different locations in the Netherlands. I stayed in the town of Vassen with a family that had no children where I pretended to be a nephew from Amsterdam who'd come to spend time with them. Because of my new identity, I had to come up with a different first name. I picked Theo --Theo Coster, a name that I've held on to ever since. "
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" I left it all behind. In Israel, I soon found a job and met Ora, my future wife. Well, she and I were Jewish and lived in Tel Aviv-- where we still live today and which had become a haven for many Jews. However, I had not moved to Israel because it was a Jewish State; I was looking for a place to live and work-- somewhere to be creative. That was possible for me there. Together, Ora and I soon had fantastic ideas. Our big break came in 1979 when we developed a board game called Wie is het? in Dutch. The toy manufacturer Milton Bradley was as enthusiastic as we were and produced the game in Great Britain under the name Guess Who? It met with amazing success, was launched in the United States in 1982, and has since been sold in almost every country around the world."
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