William S. Heckscher
In 1932–1933, Heckscher lived in New York where he worked as Panofsky's assistant. During this time, he enrolled in the Graduate Department of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University to study American art history. Heckscher returned to Germany to continue his studies in 1934. He and his mother were detained by the Gestapo and interrogated for ten days after being accused of having pacifist connections.
Eli Y. Adashi
Adashi was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, the only child of German-speaking professionals who departed Europe in the mid-1930s. A member of the first graduating class of the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, Adashi received his Medical degree in 1973. Following a Rotating Internship at the Meir Hospital, Adashi relocated to the United States for Residency Training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University under the leadership of George W. Mitchell, Jr., MD (1974–77). Adashi pursued Fellowship Training in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and Postdoctoral Training in Reproductive Biology at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of California at San Diego, respectively (1977–81). Leading mentors included but were not limited to Georgeanna Seegar Jones, MD (1912-2005), Howard W. Jones, Jr., MD (1910-2015), Aaron J.W. Hsueh, PhD (1946-), and Samuel S.C. Yen, MD, DSc (1927-2007).