Alexander Grothendieck (M / Germany, 1928-2014), Holocaust survivor
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Alexander Grothendieck (M / Germany, 1928-2014), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Refugees> <France> <Le Chambon-sur-Lignon>
Biography
Alexander Grothendieck was born March 28, 1928 in Berlin, Germany. His father, Alexander Schapiro, was Jewish. His mother, Johanna Grothendieck, was not. Both were anarchists and were combatants in the Spanish Civil War, while their son was left to a family in Hamburg. In 1939 the family is briefly reunited in France. Father was arrested and persihed in Auschwitz. Mother was sent to the Camp Gurs concentration camp. Alexander was hidden at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
After the war grew to became one of the leading mathematicians of the XX century, and a professor at the University of Montpellier