Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell University, today announced the grant of $100,000 from the estate of Wilhelm Weinberg, which will be used toward the construction of the proposed new $5,000,000 research library. One floor of the new library building will be named after Mr. Weinberg and the members of his family who were victims of Nazi genocide during World War II. A plaque memorializing Mr. Weinberg and his family will be placed in the library.
Wilhelm Weinberg was born in Germany in 1886. As a young man he settled in Paris and at the end of the first World War he moved to The Netherlands, acquiring Dutch citizenship. While he was away from Holland, the Germans invaded that country during World War II, and killed his wife and their three children.
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