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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. π§΅
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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..
#fnafdca #fnafsun #fnafmoon #EternalSky #EternalLight #EternalNight
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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 lifeβs 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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Portrait of a person with a serious expression, resting their chin on their hand. They wear a dark jacket and look directly at the camera, conveying a contemplative mood. Frieda Belinfante, Amsterdam, 1939.
She was a conductor before the world made room for women to lead. A resistance fighter who helped destroy Nazi records. A woman who disguised herself as a man to survive. This is Frieda Belinfante.
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Lillian Vernon was born Lilli Menasche in 1927 in Leipzig, Germany, to a Jewish family. Facing rising antisemitism, her family fled to Amsterdam, then New York. These early experiences taught her resilience and resourcefulness that shaped her future.
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Iβm a fan of @jmdc88.bsky.socialβs #EternalLight series, too!
A woman wearing a dark tweed jacket and a light blouse holds a book titled "10 DAYS TO A SUCCESSFUL MEMORY" by Joyce Brothers.
Dr. Joyce Brothers grew up in a Jewish family in NY, had a PhD from Columbia, a husband in medical internship making $50/month, a new baby, and no income. In 1955 she decided to go on a game show. Not because she wanted to be on TV. Because they were, in her words, "hungry."
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A headshot of an older woman with grey hair styled away from her face, wearing a red and black patterned blouse and a thin gold necklace, against a blue background. Israeli immunologist, biologist, chemist, professor, and designer, Ruth Arnon. Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
Ruth Arnon was born in 1933 in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate for Palestine. She grew up alongside the founding of Israel, in a society focused on survival, growth, and building new institutions.
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Thank you for all the work you do bringing these lives to light in your #EternalLight series!
If you haven't already, check out @jmdc88.bsky.social's #EternalLight series, mostly highlighting Jewish lives, many from the 20th century. Each thread has a post at the end for additional reading. Lots of good books on their communities and experiences.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born in July of 1921 in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents. Her mother pushed her toward education at a time when few expected girls, let alone Jewish girls, to pursue science.
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Baruch "Barry" Blumberg was born in 1925 in New York City to Jewish parents. His father was a lawyer, his mother active in community life. From early on, he was curious about the world, drawn to science but also to the diversity of human cultures.
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Black and white portrait of an adult and a child bundled in warm winter coats and hats, sitting outdoors against a tree. The adult on the left wears a patterned cloche hat and a fur-trimmed coat, holding a small bag. The child on the right is dressed in a fur hat and coat, looking towards the camera with a smile. Gertrude Elion, at age three-and-a-half, with her mother. https://achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/
Gertrude Elion was born in 1918 in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland. When her grandfather died of cancer, she was 15. She decided then that she would spend her life fighting disease through chemistry. She never moved off that path.
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Lise Meitner was born in 1878 in Vienna, at a time when women were largely shut out of higher education. Drawn early to mathematics and physics, she studied privately for years, waiting for the moment universities would finally allow her in.
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Nice to see more about Hannah Szenes. I have a thread about her too!
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So many in your wonderful #EternalLight series lose recognition or opportunities because of antisemitism.
Rosalind Franklin had to fight patriarchy too.
She should have her place in scientific history.
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Rosalind Franklin was born in 1920 in London into a prominent Jewish family committed to education and social reform. Her father taught at the Working Men's College. From a young age, she showed intellectual intensity and a quiet determination to pursue science.
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Gerhart Riegner was born September 12, 1911 in Berlin, into a German-Jewish family. He studied law at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Freiburg, preparing for a legal career when the Nazi rise to power disrupted everything.
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Jan Karski was born April 24, 1914 in ΕΓ³dΕΊ, Poland. He grew up in a multicultural city, studied law and diplomacy, and was building a career in public service when the world he knew came apart almost overnight.
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Thomas Peter Lantos was born February 1, 1928 in Budapest, Hungary. He grew up in a world shaped by family, education, and community, at a time when daily life still felt steady, even as political tensions across Europe were beginning to shift.
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Ernst Boris Chain was a German-Jewish scientist forced to flee Nazi Germany. Exiled in Britain, he co-developed penicillin into a life-saving drug. His journey from refugee to Nobel laureate shows the resilience of intellect and the power of perseverance.
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I notice this in many of your #EternalLight stories.
That gap between 1945 and 1948: were they trapped in displaced persons camps?
Then crawling back to life: loss of family and country, poverty, prejudice.
The suffering of Holocaust survivors didnβt end with the war.
A somber, elderly doctor in blue surgical scrubs stands with his arms crossed in front of a surgical light. Via Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation
Laszlo Tauber was a Jewish doctor who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest. While deportations swept Hungary, he continued treating patients inside the ghetto. Decades later, he became a physician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist shaping institutions that still stand.
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Roald Hoffmann was a child hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Decades later, he would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His story is one of survival, intellect, and the persistence of curiosity.
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Your #EternalLight series have a common thread: courage.
The courage to shelter others. The courage to survive camps. The courage to testify to the sadistic crimes of Nazis.
We should all have such courage.
