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(1851-1939) One of the first Jews in the Russian Empire to be employed in the judicial service during the czarist regime. Later on he became president of the Union of Russian Jews in Germany and used his connections within the government to help many Jews escape persecution.
(1939-2022) A Canadian and American molecular biologist of Jewish descent, son of Victor Altman, a collective farmer from the Ukrainian village of Chornyi Ostriv, who emigrated from Ukraine in 1934. He was a laureate of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Thomas Cech).
(1852-1916) An artist known for his landscapes and portraits in the Realist style, he attended the Drawing School of Warsaw and eventually settled in Vilnius. He was also a writer, a member of the Lithuanian Art Society, and produced a collection of postcards.
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