Heinz Steinitz
Heinz Steinitz was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) on April 26, 1909, to Walter Steinitz (1882-1963), a cardiologist and zoologist, and Marta Schindler Steinitz (1885-1926). He grew up in Breslau and was greatly inspired by his father to study science and to be an active Zionist. He studied medicine from 1927-1933 in the universities of Breslau, Freiburg and Berlin. Although he passed the Medical Board examination in 1933, and would have started work in a hospital in Berlin and in the Jewish hospital in Breslau, he was prohibited from practicing by the Nazi regime which came to power that same year. Together with his wife Ruth Aber Steinitz (1907-1995), a medical student as well, he left Germany in 1933 and immigrated to Palestine.
John F. R. Seitz
Major General John F. R. "Jeff" Seitz retired from the United States Army in April 1966.Jeff Seitz married Helen Hardenbergh in 1931. They had three children, John Francis Regis Seitz, Jr., Helen Seitz Patterson and Raymond G. H. Seitz, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom between April 25, 1991 and May 10, 1994. Helen Hardenbergh Seitz died from cancer in January 1953. In 1956, Seitz married the American actress Jessie Royce Landis (called "Royce" by the family; "Roycie" by grandchildren) in Tehran, Iran. After Seitz's retirement in 1966, he and Royce had an apartment in New York City and a home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Early in 1972, Royce also died from cancer. Later that year, Seitz suffered a stroke after which he required nursing home care for the rest of his life.