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You Benefit From This Austrian Refugee's Inventions; Now Learn His Name

The Austrian Jewish Refugee With Over 650 Patents to His Name

The prodigy is an almost mythical character: a person who, from an impossibly young age, shows mastery in areas that would take others a lifetime to achieve. The Inventor’s Dilemma: The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber (Yale University Press) chronicles the extraordinary life of such a person, who also happened to have fled the […]

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Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Died at 34

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

Minimalist art is characterized by a kind of machine-made reductiveness, a movement transgressive in its simplicity. So what would post-minimalism look like? Just check out the breathtaking work of the late Eva Hesse. Born to observant Jews in Hamburg, on this day, January 11, in 1936, Hesse escaped Nazi Europe via kindertransport, eventually settling with […]

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The Fake Typhus Epidemic That Saved Thousands From the Nazis

How Nazis Were Fooled by a Fake Typhus Epidemic

A doctor wants to prevent disease. But what if the appearance of being sick could save your patient’s life? That’s what confronted two doctors in Rozwadów, Poland, during the Second World War. They knew the Nazis were terrified of typhus, which is highly contagious, and wouldn’t deport typhus patients to German concentration camps. Dr. Eugene […]

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