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Children Of Holocaust Survivors
List of offspring of Holocaust survivors with their own Wikipedia entries: A * Yitzhak Aharonovich * Chantal Akerman * Avi Arad * Yardena Arazi * Charles Ardai * Uri Ariel * Shlomo Artzi * Gabi Ashkenazi * Mickey Avalon * Emanuel Ax * Yank Azman B * Blanche Baker * Gad Barzilai * Gary Baseman * Yishai Beer * Avi Beker * Jeanne Beker * Nitza Ben-Dov * Daniel Berger (physician) * Tzvi Berkowitz * Aliza Bin-Noun * Wolf Blitzer * Lili Bosse * Timothy Boyle * Benjamin Brafman * William Breitbart * Lily Brett * Pedro Brieger * John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley C * Michael Cohen (lawyer) D * Judy Darcy * Nir Davidovich * Chaim Deutsch * Avi Dichter * Jessica Durlacher E * Sam Egan * Steve Eichel * Barry Eichengreen * Bernice Eisenstein * Freddy Eytan F * Avigdor Feldman * Pablo Fenjves * Emanuele Fiano * Norman Finkelstein * David Fisher (filmmaker) * Dudu Fisher * Gideon Fisher * Shimon Fogel * Ari Folman * Miloš Forman * Jean-Pierre Foucault * George Fried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holocaust Survivors
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Axis powers, its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accepted definition of the term, and it has been applied variously to Jews who survived the war in German-occupied Europe or other Axis territories, as well as to those who fled to Allies (World War II), Allied and Neutral powers during World War II, neutral countries before or during the war. In some cases, non-Jews who also experienced collective persecution under the Nazi regime are also considered Holocaust survivors. The definition has evolved over time. Survivors of the Holocaust include those persecuted civilians who were still alive in the Nazi concentration camps, concentration camps when they were liberated at the end of the war, or those who had either Jewish partisans, survived as partisans or been hidden with the Righte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Beker
Jeanne Beker, (; born 19 March 1952) is a Canadian television personality, fashion editor, and author. Family Jeanne Beker was born in Toronto, Ontario to father Joseph Beker and mother Bronia Beker, two Jewish Holocaust survivors born in Kozova, Poland (now in Ukraine) who immigrated to Canada from a displaced persons camp in Austria. Jeanne was previously (from 1986 to 1998) married to Toronto radio personality Bob Magee, but is now divorced. They have two daughters together. Early life She attended high school at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute. She first launched her career as an actor, landing a role in the CBC Television sitcom ''Toby'' in 1968. She subsequently entered the theatre program at York University, and then went to Paris to study mime under Étienne Decroux. She then returned to Canada, working for CBC Radio as an arts and entertainment reporter in St. John's while pursuing her theatrical career. Journalism career Beker returned to Toronto in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cohen (lawyer)
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American former lawyer who served as an attorney for U.S. president Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018. Cohen was a vice-president of the Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump's " fixer". He served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity. From 2017 to 2018, Cohen was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. Trump employed Cohen until May 2018, a year after the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections began. The investigation led Cohen to plead guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign-finance laws at the direction of Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election. In November 2018, Cohen e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
Edmund John Phillip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, (born 20 February 1948) is a British businessman. He is best known for his role as the chief executive of the energy company BP between 1995 and 2007. This period has been described as the company's "golden period of expansion and diversification". Browne was lauded during this period as he engineered mergers with rival Amoco and ARCO, and gained access to Russian oil reserves with the creation of TNK-BP. Nicknamed the "Sun King" for his management style, he was also praised for transforming the oil and gas industry's approach to climate change, and for creating a renewable and alternative energy business within BP. He resigned from BP in May 2007 in controversial circumstances surrounding his personal life. He is a former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2006 to July 2011), and has served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Intel and Daimler Benz. Since 2001, he has been a crossbench member of the House of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Brieger
Pedro Rubén Brieger (born 5 November 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine journalist and sociologist. He is a professor of Middle East Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences. He worked for different newspapers, including Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación, Página/12, Perfil and Miami Herald; and magazines like Noticias, Tres Puntos, Revista Veintitrés and Le Monde diplomatique. In August 2006 he reported that Canal Siete, the channel where his program was being broadcast, had received pressure from the Israeli ambassador Rafael Eldad, because of its coverage of the military conflict in Middle East. Although the diplomat denied these statements, the Union Press Workers of Buenos Aires issued a statement where they expressed solidarity with Brieger, considering "unacceptable the expressions of the Ambassador Eldad". In August 2009 he received the Martín Fierro Award as the best male journalistic labour on TV, during 2008. In May 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Brett
Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946, Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria, Germany) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to 1968, in London 1968–1971, Melbourne (1971–1989) and then moved permanently to New York City. In Australia she had an early career as a pop music journalist, including writing for music magazine ''Go-Set'' from May 1966 to September 1968. From 1979 she started writing poems, prose fiction and non-fiction. As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, her works include depictions of family life including living in Melbourne and New York. Four of her fictional novels are ''Things Could Be Worse'' (1990), '' Just Like That'' (1994), ''Too Many Men'' (2001) and '' You Gotta Have Balls'' (2005). Biography Brett's parents, Max (born Mojsze Brajtsztajn, 1916) and Rose (née Rozka Szpindler, ca. 1921–1986), lived in Łódź, Poland before the outb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Breitbart
William S. Breitbart, FAPM (born 1951), is an American psychiatrist in Psychosomatic Medicine, Psycho-oncology, and Palliative Care. He is the Jimmie C Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, and the Chief of the Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY), He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He was president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Editor-in-Chief of ''Palliative and Supportive Care''. He is an attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, the Palliative Care Service of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Breitbart was a founding board member of the American Psycho-Oncology Society (APOS) and the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and a president Early life and education William Breitbart was born in 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Brafman
Benjamin Brafman (born July 21, 1948) is a prominent American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based firm Brafman & Associates, P.C.Amanda MayoLocal High-Profile Defense Attorney Ben Brafman: "If you do Great Work, People will Start to Take Notice." ''South Shore Standard'' (June 8, 2012). Brafman is known for representing many high-profile defendants, including celebrities, accused Mafia members, and political figures. Early life and education Brafman grew up in Brooklyn and Belle Harbor, Queens, a son of Holocaust survivors. Brafman's family fled from Europe to Cuba on their way to the United States just before World War II. He went to a Yeshiva High School and took night classes at Brooklyn College, majoring in anthropology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Brafman received his Juris Doctor with distinction from Ohio Northern University College of Law. He also earned an LL.M. from New York University School of Law. In May 2014, Brafman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Boyle
Timothy P. Boyle (born 1949) is an American billionaire, and the president and chief executive officer, CEO of Columbia Sportswear.Forbes: "Columbia Sportswear Thrives, Lifting CEO Tim Boyle To Billionaire Ranks" by Kathryn Dill November 8, 2013 According to ''Forbes'', his estimated net worth was US$2.0 billion in November 2022. Early life Boyle was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He is one of three children of Joseph Cornelius "Neal" Boyle, an Irish Catholic, and Gert Boyle, Gertrude Lamfrom. His mother was Jewish and fled as a teenager from Nazi Germ ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Bosse
Lili Bosse ( Toren) is an American politician serving as the 82nd and current mayor of Beverly Hills, California. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has supported many Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. Before her current term, she also served as the mayor of Beverly Hills from March 2014 to March 2015 and March 2017 to March 2018. Early life Lili Bosse (née Toren) was born October 6, 1961 and grew up in Rego Park, Queens, New York City, until age nine, when she moved to Beverly Hills. She is the only child of Holocaust survivors.Michael AushenkerL.A. Women's Circuit ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', October 4, 2001 Her parents met in Israel shortly after World War II and decided to immigrate to the United States. Her father, Jack Toren, died in 1993.Al MartinezHer Name Is Rose ''The Los Angeles Times'', February 4, 1995 Her mother, Rosalia (Orenstein) Toren, born in Poland, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote two books abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He is the host of ''The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer'' and until 2021, served as the network's lead political anchor. Early life Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany near Munich in 1948, during post-World War II Allied occupation the son of Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder. His parents were Polish Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp; his grandparents, two uncles, and two aunts on his father's side were all murdered there. Blitzer and his family immigrated to the United States under the provisions of the 1948 Displaced Persons Act. He was raised in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliza Bin-Noun
Aliza Bin-Noun is an Israeli diplomat. She serves as the Israeli Ambassador to France and Monaco. Biography Aliza Bin-Noun grew up near Nahariya, in northern Israel. Her Hungarian paternal grandparents were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Her father is a Holocaust survivor. Bin-Noun graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied French. She served in the Israel Defense Forces. Bin-Noun is married to Claus, with whom she has two daughters. Diplomatic career Bin-Noun is a career diplomat. From 2001 to 2006, she was Advisor in the Arms Control Division, followed by Advisor in Political Affairs, and Director of Department of Coordination Bureau. She served as Israel's ambassador in Budapest, Hungary from 2007 to 2011. In 2012, she was appointed as the Head of the Political Bureau in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since August 2015, Bin-Noun has served as the Israeli Ambassador to France. She is the first female Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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