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A German‐Jewish refugee in Vichy France 1939–1941. Arno Motulsky's memoir of life in the internment camps at St. Cyprien and Gurs
Author(s) -
Motulsky Arno G.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of medical genetics part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1552-4833
pISSN - 1552-4825
DOI - 10.1002/ajmg.a.38701
Subject(s) - memoir , judaism , refugee , german , history , ancient history , art history , archaeology
Arno G. Motulsky was born in Germany on July 5, 1923 and died in Seattle on January 17, 2018. Through his research, writing, and mentoring, he helped found the fields of human and medical genetics. His contributions as a scientist, physician, and mentor were enormous. His life and contributions are detailed in obituaries published by the New York Times (Grady, 2018), the American Journal of Human Genetics (Jarvik & King, 2018a, 2018b), Genetics in Medicine (Jarvik, in press), The American Journal of Medical Genetics (Obitz, 2018), and the University of Washington (Jarvik & King, 2018a, 2018b). He was born in Fischhausen near Konigsberg, East Prussia to Jewish parents. When the Nazi campaign escalated, his father emigrated to Cuba. At age 16 in 1939, the young Motulsky (with his mother and younger brother and sister) already on a waiting list for a visa to enter the United States, obtained a tourist entry card to join his father in Cuba. With more than 900 other Jewish refugees, the Motulsky family embarked on the ship the MS St. Louis from Hamburg to Havana (Miller & Ogilvie, 2006). On the deck of the St Louis in 1939. The arrow points to Arno. Photo used with permission, AP/Wide World Photo.