Eric Mendelsohn, noted Jewish architect, died here yesterday at the age of 66. Mr. Mendelsohn, who fled the Nazis in 1933, practiced in England until 1941 when he came to the United States.
Among his better known works are the residence of the late President Weizmann of Israel and the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He also designed the Albert Einstein Tower of Potsdam, an atsrophysical institute designed to test Prof. Einstein’s theory of relativity. In the United States he designed a projected memorial in New York to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe.
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