[1] Born in Budapest, Wolf's mother died at a young age and his father, who sold sewing machines, later remarried.

Wolf and his stepmother were forced to relocate to the local ghetto during the Holocaust after his father was murdered by members of the Arrow Cross Party.

After the ghetto was liberated in 1945, Wolf resided in a Bnei Akiva camp in France from 1948 until emigrating to Israel the following year.

In 2017, Roni directed a documentary detailing her father's life, which entails aspects such as late fatherhood.

[3] On 23 February 2019, Wolf died in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv following a battle with multiple system atrophy at the age of 85.