Alex (Chaim Yitzchak) Folkman

Alex Folkman was born Chaim Yitzhak Rothenberg on June 10, 1922, to a Chassidic family in the small town of Tylicz, Poland. Nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, Tylicz was in southern Poland, near the Czechoslovakian border...

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Henry Lubell (Henryk Lubelski)

Henryk Lubelski was born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland on August 23, 1911. He was raised in a religious Jewish family and his parents, Yehudah and Sarah, emphasized the importance of education. Henryk’s father was a cantor and a shochet...

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Alexander Salomon

Alexander Salomon was born on June 22nd, 1919, in Zvollen, Slovakia, and grew up in an isolated, ultra-orthodox community in Dej, Transylvania, then part of Romania. His parents, Morris and Charlotte, were peddlers who traveled throughout the region, selling...

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