Eliezer "Eli" Sotto (1923-2017) was born in Salonika, Greece, to David and Victoria Sotto. He had two brothers, Charlie and Isaac; and four sisters, Gracia, Bella, Rachel, and Sarah. In 1941, Germany invaded Greece during World War II, and in 1943 Sotto and his family were taken to Auschwitz. Sotto and his younger brother Isaac escaped from a train on its way to an execution field and found refuge in a Catholic hospital in Prague until the end of the war. They were the only members of the family to survive the war and returned to Salonika after Greece's liberation from the Germans. Sotto married another Holocaust survivor, Lucy Levy Sotto (1924-1995), in 1946 and they had three children; Rachel Levi (1947- ), Victoria Sotto Flink (1953- ), and David Sotto (1960- ); three grandchildren, David Flink, Denise Morrison, and Maurice Happy Levi; and three great-granchildren, Emma Flink, Danielle Levi, and Sarah Morrison. Sotto and his family immigrated to the United States in 1952 and settled in Atlanta a year later. Sotto worked as a barber in downtown Atlanta. He opened his own barbershop in 1957 called The Trim Shop in Midtown. His clientele included former mayors Ivan Allen and Maynard Jackson, former governor Roy Barnes, and television host Bert Parks. Sotto retired at age 90 in 2014 and donated the shop's contents to the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum and the Atlanta History Center. In 2010 Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall declared April 27 Eli Sotto Day in honor of his contribution to Midtown.