Born Quote by Walter Kohn

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

— Eric Kandel

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the…

— Eric Kandel

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.

— Tzipi Livni

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

— H. Robert Horvitz

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately,…

— Harald zur Hausen

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria…

— Rick Atkinson

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New…

— Sebastian Stan

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish…

— Francois Englert

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and…

— Eugene Jarecki

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon

I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife…

— Paul Heyse