Lilli Hornig
As with so many of the scientists who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, Lilli Schwenk Hornig (1921-2017) had fled her homeland to escape persecution.
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Caroline Kline Galland
Caroline Rosenberg Kline Galland, an early and important Seattle philanthropist, devoted her life to serving the community. Her will bequeathed funds for a home for the Jewish aged and for other charities, including a tuberculosis hospital.
Ellen Cuffe
Countess of Desart, philanthropist, and senator
Roz Chast
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
Pola Nirenska
Modern dancer and choreographer
Dr Ruth Westheimer
Famed sex therapist
Trude Rittmann
Prominent German-American composer, music arranger, teacher, and pianist.
Golde Bamber
Golde Bamber (1868–1951) led efforts to support Boston’s Jewish immigrant youth, founding the Hecht House, a vital community hub, in 1936.
Dorothy W Block Paraskevopoulos
Dorothy W. Block Paraskevopoulos (1891-1967) was a Jewish American Astronomer who worked for the Harvard College, Yerkes, and Boyden Station Observatories.
Dr Fanny Berlin
Dr. Fanny Berlin (1852-1921) traveled from her home in Ukraine to medical school in Switzerland, one of the few medical schools that would accept women at the time. She emigrated to the United States right after graduating and worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, one of the few hospitals who treated immigrant women.