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THE obituary column of The Times records the death "some time in 1944, at Terezin (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia, of Hans Przibram, formerly Professor in the University of Vienna, and his wife Elizabeth Margarethe (née Ruhmann). Behind these words lies untold tragedy; for Theresienstadt was one of the worst of the concentration camps, and many thousands of Jews were slaughtered there. The War had not long begun when we heard of the death at Dachau of Prof. M. Siedlecki of Cracow, an old and famous and much-loved naturalist; it is scarcely ended when we hear that Hans Przibram has been done to death, who once was rich, enthusiastic, hospitable, and whose Laboratory, or "Vivarium", was known to every naturalist who came to Vienna. We know of many another, and dread to hear of more, who have suffered from the same ferocious inhumanity.
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THOMPSON, D. Dr. Hans Przibram. Nature 155, 782 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155782a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155782a0