Albert Einstein meets with a group of American Zionists and scientists.
Overview
- Caption
- Albert Einstein meets with a group of American Zionists and scientists.
From left to right are Judah Leman, Leo Herrmann, Albert Einsein, Leopold Godowsky, Elsa Einstein, Mrs. Morros, and Borris Morros. - Date
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April 1935
- Locale
- New York City, NY United States
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Helen Hamlin
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Helen HamlinSource Record ID: Collections: 2003.276
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Helen R. Hamlin is the widow of Isadore Hamlin. Isadore (Itzik) Hamlin was the son of Isaac Hamlin and Anny Freedman Hamlin. Itzik, a life-long Labor Zionist, was born in Cambridge, MA on January 21, 1917 and received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1941. After college he was the first recipient of the Bnai Brith scholarship which he used to attend the New School for Social Research to study international law and politics. He was drafted in June 1942. Itzik was later sent to officer's candidate school and became a lieutenant in the intelligence staff of 83rd Infantry Division. In February 1944 he was sent overseas and served in the European Theater of Operations and the Army of Occupation. In April, 1945, he participated in the liberation of Buchenwald. After having witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, Isadore decided to devote the rest of his life to the welfare of the Jewish people. He was discharged in September 1945 with the rank of Captain. After his return to America, he and his wife Helen moved to Washington DC where Itzik assumed the position of press officer for the Jewish Agency for Palestine. This later became the Israeli Embassy following Israel's independence in May 1948. In 1949 he returned to New York to become the executive assistant to the Executive Director of the Jewish Agency for Israel. In 1964 he became the Executive Director of the Jewish Agency and remained so until his retirement in 1988.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist and Nobel laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity (1905). A professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, he demonstratively resigned his post after the Nazi takeover in 1933. He emigrated to the United States accepting a professorship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1941, after information reached the American scientific community that Nazi Germany had undertaken a uranium project, Einstein agreed to sign a letter to Franklin Roosevelt pointing out the feasibility of atomic energy. It was this letter that sparked the Manhattan Project and the developments of the atomic bomb. Einstein, however, was strongly opposed to the use of atomic weapons and became active in efforts to outlaw their manufacture in the 1940s and 1950s.
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