Draft:Samuel Bernard Person
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Bernard Person | |
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| Born | 19 June 1894 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands) |
| Died | 9 March 1981 |
| Other names | Bep Person, Samuel Bär Person, Piet Hein |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Correspondent |
| Spouse | Rosa Citroen (married 1925)(1899–1980) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Helena (Lena) Aronowitz, Elias (Elja) Schmoeiloff Person |
| Relatives | Aron Broches (1st cousin) |
Bernard Person (19 June 1894–9 March 1981) was a Dutch-born journalist who delivnt. He was editor-in-chief of several newspapers, founded Facts on File, and was a United Nations correspondent.
Early life and education
[edit]Person was born Samuel Bär Person in Amsterdam to parents Helena (Lena) Aronowitz (b. 27 October 1858 in Palanga, Lithuania) and Elias Schmoeiloff Person (b. 15 October 1845 in Romny, Ukraine).
His family was Jewish. He was the youngest of seven children; the first six were born in Ukraine, and he was the only child born after his family had moved to the Netherlands.[citation needed]
Person was fluent in Dutch, German, French, Russian, Yiddish, and English.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit]In 1925, Person married Rosa Citroen (whose older sister Lena Citroen was the wife of Erwin Blumenfeld and whose cousins included German-born Barbara Ledermann and Dutch painter Paul Citroen; the family was distantly related to the automobile family Citroën).
Bernard and Rosa had two children, Alexander Dunbar (1927–2013) and Elka Myra (married name Fink; 1928–2022), both born in the Netherlands.[1] Person had five grandchildren, all born in the United States.
Mr. Person brought his family to the United States in 1939. They sailed on the Veendam[2] and arrived at Ellis Island on 9 March 1939. The family settled in Great Neck, NY.
Career
[edit]As a newspaper repo[citation needed]
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Soon after arriving in New York, he became the first editor-in-chief of the Knickerbocker Weekly[4] before leaving the post due to perceived interference from business managers.[5] In 1940, ns.[1][5][6] At the time he was a member of the Netherlands Information Bureau in New York.[1]
.[1] Person contributed to the morale of many Dutch people during the war, and he received hundreds of grateful letters after the war from Dutch Jews.[citation needed] He.[1]
Ptired.[1]
Death
[edit]Person died exactly 42 years from the day the family arrived in the United States. He died in Albuquerque, NM at age 86.[1] He was buried next to his wife in Westchester County, New York.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Bernard Person, Winner Of Dutch Honors in War". The New York Times. 1981-03-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ @StadsarchiefRotterdam. "Zoeken op passagiers". Stadsarchief Rotterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ a b c van Eeten-Koopmans, Jana (1996). "Boris Raptschinsky (1887–1983)". Studia Rosenthaliana. 30 (2): 282–303. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41482343.
- ^ Knickerbocker Weekly. Netherlands Publishing Corporation. 1941.
- ^ a b Kok, Charlotte (24 June 2011). The Knickerbocker Weekly and the Netherlands Information Bureau: A Public Diplomacy Cooperation During the 1941-1947 Era (PDF). American Studies Program. MA Thesis, American Studies Program, Utrecht University. pp. 20–23.
- ^ The End of isolationism : Facts on File's reports from the final weeks of 1940 /. Facts on File. 1977. ISBN 978-0-87196-049-8.
- ^ "Bernard Person (1894-1981) - Find a Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2024-06-16.