Oval miniature portrait of a clergyman in a black robe and white clerical collar, set in an ornate oval frame.
He was 23 when he stepped into a role no one born in America had ever held before.
His name was Gershom Mendes Seixas. At a time when Jewish life was fragile and uncertain, he helped make sure it didn't disappear.
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A black and white, waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a white lab coat over a white shirt and scarf. She is standing in a laboratory setting with shelves filled with glassware and bottles behind her. Her right hand is resting on a lab bench, and she is holding a small, dark object.
You’ve probably never heard her name, but her work changed how we understand life at the molecular level. Mildred Cohn helped transform biochemistry from inference into precision, giving scientists new ways to see how life actually works.
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A young man with dark hair and a beard smiles while leaning against a stone pillar. He wears a white collared shirt, an open black cardigan, and a brown belt. The background features an arched walkway with soft lighting.
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A lone soldier, Omer Balva, a 22-year-old Staff Sergeant in the Israeli army reserves, was on vacation in Rockville, Maryland, his hometown, when Hamas launched its bloody onslaught.
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Otto H. Warburg, 1931 A black and white, medium shot portrait of a man in a laboratory, wearing a light-colored jacket over a patterned tie and collared shirt. He stands with his hands clasped in front of him. Shelves with laboratory equipment, including bottles and glassware, are visible in the background.
He changed how we understand cancer, but his story is complicated. Otto Warburg made one of the most important discoveries in modern biology while living in Nazi Germany, a place that defined him by ancestry he did not fully claim.
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Been off soc for a few days always happy to come back to these threads 🙏
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A black and white portrait of a young man in a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera. "Joseph Rotblat as a student in Warsaw before the Second World War." ( Joseph Rotblat: Visionary for Peace)
Most scientists who worked on the atomic bomb stayed. One did not. Joseph Rotblat walked away from the Manhattan Project on moral grounds, before the bombs were dropped, and before most of his colleagues were willing to ask whether they should be.
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Most people have heard of the atomic bomb, but far fewer know the man who coneived the science behind it. Leo Szilard saw what was coming before almost anyone else, and spent years trying to warn the world.
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I read your series and try to stretch my imagination to understand the horror these Holocaust survivors endured.
I find it hard with Lali: forced to steal humanity from his fellow victims, his people, every day.
His ability to build a life after the war is truly a testament to #EternalLight.
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At Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoners were reduced to numbers. Lali Sokolov was forced to make that happen… tattooing those numbers onto others. He survived the camp, and he found love there. For decades after the war, he rarely spoke about what he experienced.
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Remembering Liviu Librescu
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A black and white medium shot of a smiling woman in a striped shirt in a laboratory setting. She is standing in front of shelves filled with glassware and equipment.
Her discoveries helped shape modern genetics… but her name is often left out of the story. Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg was a pioneering Jewish scientist whose work still underpins microbiology today.
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Love love these threads
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Meet Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky.
She was born in 1929 in Kaunas and was 12 when the Nazis occupied her city. She kept a diary inside the Kovno Ghetto, recording what she saw and experienced as it unfolded.
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When I read your #EternalLight series, I’m always struck by the sheer courage of these people who saved lives.
They had everything to lose. They didn’t have to act. But their conscience was stronger than their fear.
May we all have a conscience like theirs.
Ara Jeretzian with his wife Maria, daughter Sofia, and son Ara, 1956. From the family archive of Ara Jeretzian. A black and white studio portrait of a family of four, with two children in the foreground and their parents behind them. The young girl on the left has dark hair and a striped dress, looking directly at the camera. Next to her is a young boy with curly hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and smiling. Behind them, a man with a mustache wears a collared shirt and a suit jacket, while the woman to his right has dark, wavy hair and a floral patterned dress, with the man's arm around her shoulders.
Ara Jeretzian isn’t a widely known name. But in 1944 Budapest, as persecution closed in, he helped save around 400 Jewish lives… not with weapons, but by transforming an ordinary clinic into something far more powerful. A place where people could disappear and survive.
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Portrait of a middle-aged man with a bald head, glasses, and a beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie. The image is in black and white, conveying a vintage feel. Portrait of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor and author who ran a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, circa 1930. Credits: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie im. Janusza Korczaka
Meet Janusz Korczak 📚 Born July 22, 1878, in Warsaw, he was a pediatrician, educator, and writer who became one of the most influential voices for children’s dignity and rights, and a man remembered for the choice he made at the end of his life.
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A woman smiling in front of a background filled with musical notes. She wears a vintage dress, conveying a sense of warmth and musical passion.
Meet Alice Herz-Sommer 🎹
Born November 26, 1903, in Prague, she would become one of the oldest known Holocaust survivors and a woman whose life showed how music and resilience can endure in the darkest places.
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Lillian Wald was born in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a German-Jewish family and raised in Rochester, New York. She grew up in relative comfort, far removed from the poverty of immigrant neighborhoods.
That distance would not last.
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Continuing with the boxing theme.
Victor "Young" Perez was a world champion boxer and Holocaust victim. Born in 1911 in Tunis to a Jewish family, he rose from poverty to international fame before everything changed.
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Gerty Theresa Radnitz was born in 1896 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family. At a time when few women pursued science, she set her sights on medicine and refused to be turned away.
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Smiling woman in a blue NASA uniform poses in front of a model space shuttle. The image conveys a sense of professionalism and inspiration. Official portrait from 1978
Judith Resnik was born April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio. A child prodigy in both music and math, she could have become a concert pianist. Instead, she chose engineering and became the first Jewish woman in space.
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Salamo Arouch was born in 1923 in Thessaloniki, Greece, into a Sephardic Jewish family. Before the war, he was a champion boxer. During the Holocaust, he was forced to fight for his life in Auschwitz. This is his story.
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In 1926, a Jewish kid from eastern Poland became captain of one of the greatest football clubs in Central Europe. By 1945 he had survived Auschwitz, a death march, and the end of the world as he knew it. His name was Ignaz Feldmann. This is his story. 🧵
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Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854, in Strehlen, Prussia (now Strzelin, Poland), into a Jewish family. From an early age, he showed a fascination with science that would lead him to become one of the founders of modern immunology.
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just a baby...baby infi...what if what if..
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Selman Waksman was born on July 22, 1888, in Novaya Pryluka, a small town in what is now Ukraine, into a Jewish farming family in the Russian Empire. He grew up surrounded by soil and farmland, an environment that would shape his life’s work.
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A man in a white lab coat stands confidently near metal lab equipment, his expression thoughtful and determined, conveying a sense of scientific dedication.
Jonas Salk was born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish immigrants. His father worked in the garment industry and had little formal education, but he was determined his children would have opportunities and stability he never had.
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