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1. Simon Wiesenthal (1908)
Austrian Hunter
Jewish Holocaust survivor who sought to bring Nazis to justice for their World War II-era atrocities.
2. Izak Aloni (1905)
Chess Player
Izak Aloni was an Israeli chess master.
3. Emanuel Ringelblum (1900)
Polish Historian
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian politician and social worker known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from...
4. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888)
Nobel Laureate In Literature
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew he is known by the acronym Shai...