
Leo Baeck (1873-1956)
Born in Poland, Baeck was a rabbi, scholar, and leader of Progressive Judaism. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he defended the Jewish community as the president of Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. He refused to abandon his community and in 1943 Baeck was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was appointed the honorary head of the Judenrat and was therefore protected from transports to Auschwitz. After the war he moved to London and later became chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. While visiting the United States in 1933 he decided to stay there and became an American citizen. During WWII he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt encouraging the developing of “an extremely powerful bomb” which led to the Manhattan Project. The word Einstein became synonymous with genius.

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888)

Walther Rathenau (1867-1922)
Rathenau was an industrialist, writer and politician who during the Weimar Republic served as the Foreign Minister of Germany. In 1922, two months after he signed the Treaty of Rapallo with Russia in which each country renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following WWI, he was assassinated by members of a violent anti-Semitic group.
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