Kalmanovitz was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. Paul emigrated to Egypt at the end of the World War I his family father , mother and brothers remained in Lodz and he later worked for Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby. Kalmanowitz arrived in the United States in the 1926 by jumping a merchant marine ship and jumped from job to job, working for several notable people such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, william Randolph Hearst, and Louis B. Mayer (MGM). In 1945 Paul Kalmanovitz received a letter from his niece , Sonia Kalmanowicz , the daughter of his oldest brother Joseph Kalmanowicz, in this letter she informed Paul that his brother had died in Auschwitz in 1944 and that she and her brother Stanislas had survived Auschwitz. He immediately arranged to apply for a visa number for them to enter the United States, by 1946 Stanislas was granted a visa , Sonia by then had decided to remain in France. Stanislas departed from Le Havre in April 1946 in steerage on the SS Oregon a ship of WWI vintage. You will notice that Paul when he entered the United States changed the spelling of the family name from Kalmanowicz to Kalmanovitz, so when Stanilas arrived in New York he officially changed his name to Stanley Kalmanovitz.