Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After he completed the elementary school in Münsterberg, Neisser enrolled in the St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau (now Wrocław, in Poland). In this school, he was a contemporary of another great name in the history of medicine, Paul Ehrlich. He obtained the Abitur in 1872.
Albert Kish
Albert was born in Eger, Hungary in 1937, the son of Olga Weisz, a clothing store manager and Albert Kiss a customs officer. His studies in Hungary were interrupted by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after which he went to Austria. While in Vienna, he saw for the first time, films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) which greatly impressed him. He arrived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in March 1957 with Bela Balazs's book, "Film Kultura" under his arm.