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Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Albert EinsteinOn the 14th of March 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm within the Kingdom of Württemberg. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
- Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse was born on the 18th of December 1921 in Germany. His family fled the Nazi regime and arrived in the United States in 1935.
- Kurt WeillKurt Julian Weill entered the world on the 2nd of March 1900 in Dessau. He grew up in a religious Jewish family within the Sandvorstadt district of Saxony.
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was born on the 13th of September 1874 in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. His father Samuel worked as a shoe-shopkeeper and moved from…
- Elsa EinsteinElsa Einstein entered the world on the 18th of January 1876 in the town of Hechingen. Her father Rudolf worked as a textile manufacturer there.
- Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred Kissinger was born on the 27th of May 1923 in Fürth, Bavaria. His family lived under Nazi rule when he was nine years old and Adolf Hitler…
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July 1898 in Berlin. His family belonged to the German upper-middle class and identified as Jewish.
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was born on the 18th of May 1891 in Wuppertal, Germany. His father rose from being a poor ribbon-weaver to own a ribbon-making factory.
- Paul TillichPaul Johannes Tillich was born on the 20th of August 1886, in the small village of Starzeddel. This location lay within the Province of Brandenburg, then…
- Edward TellerEde Teller was born on the 15th of January 1908, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father Miksa worked as an…
- Alfred EinsteinAlfred Einstein was born in Munich on the 30th of December 1880. He began his academic life studying law at a German university.
- Joseph WeizenbaumJoseph Weizenbaum was born on the 8th of January 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His parents were Jewish and lived under a regime that would soon turn against them.
- Erich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main. He grew up as the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm.
- Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…
- Peter BergmannPeter Gabriel Bergmann was born on the 24th of March 1915 into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father Max worked as a biochemist and later became a professor…
- Emmy NoetherAmalie Emmy Noether was born on the 23rd of March 1882 in Erlangen, Bavaria. Her father Max Noether taught mathematics at the local university.
- Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895. He grew up as the eldest child of Robert Hindemith and his wife Marie…
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…
- Otto SternOtto Stern was born on the 17th of February 1888 into a Jewish family in Sohrau. This town now bears the name Żory within the Province of Silesia, Kingdom of…
- Eric GutkindEric Gutkind entered the world on the 9th of February 1877 in Berlin. His parents were Hermann Gutkind and Elise Weinberg, who lived until 1942.