Paolo Calabresi (M / Italy, 1930-2003), Holocaust survivor

New Haven, May 1940. Adults (from the left): Bianca Finzi Contini, Renata Calabresi, and Massimo Calabresi. Children: Paolo (Paul) Calabresi), Guido (John) Tedeschi, Guido Calabresi, and Luca Tedeschi

Paolo "Paul" Calabresi (M / Italy, 1930-2003), Holocaust survivor

Guido Calabresi (M / Italy, 1932), Holocaust survivor

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Biography

Paolo (April 5, 1930) and Guido (1932) Calabresi were born in Milan, Italy, the sons of Dr. Massimo Calabresi and Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi. In Italy, their family was active in the anti-fascist resistance but in September 1939, after the Racial Laws, fled to the United States. They moved to New Haven where his father joined the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine as a cardiologist at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital. Paul’s mother was a scholar of European literature, earned a Ph.D. in French at Yale and was Professor of French and Italian at Connecticut College and for many years Professor and Chair of the Italian Department at Albertus Magnus College.

Paul attended the Hopkins School in New Haven and then received his bachelor’s degree and then his MD degree from Yale University. He became a prominent medical and pharmacological researcher of cancer and oncology.

Guido received his Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude from Yale College in 1953, majoring in economics. He became a famous economist.