Samuel Aroni

Samuel Aroni , Russian Сэмюэл Арони , maiden name Samuil Dawidowitsch Tscherwinski , Russian Самуил Давидович Червинский (born May 26, 1927 in Chisinau ) is a Soviet - Moldovan - American civil engineer and materials scientist .

Life

Samuel grew up in the wealthy family of David Aronowitsch Tscherwinski and his wife Klara Leibowna Apoteker. His grandfather Leib Apoteker manufactured leather and woolen goods and was one of the richest businessmen in Chisinau. Leib Apotheker was arrested in 1940 and exiled to Siberia , where he died. Samuel's father had joined his father-in-law's company as a partner after their marriage. Russian was spoken in the family , but Samuel also learned Romanian and Yiddish . During the German-Soviet War , Samuel was trapped in the Chisinau ghetto with his parents and relatives in 1941 . In October 1941, the parents managed to organize the escape by bribing the Romanian guards with their hidden jewelry. On October 15, 1941, Samuel and his parents, six-year-old brother, uncles and aunts got through a gap in the fence to the Chisinau train station and then to Bucharest with forged documents . All of them initially hid individually with acquaintances and then in a prepared apartment. After a display on 24 November 1941, the parents and other adults were arrested and after Transnistria in the camp Domanjowka deported. Samuel and his brother, on the other hand, were able to run away and hide with Romanian relatives in Bucharest and then in Galatz . On July 9, 1944, they managed to get on the ship Kazbek in Constantza , which was leaving Romania illegally . They got to Palestine through Turkey . All relatives left in the Chisinau ghetto, including the grandparents, were killed. Samuel took the surname Aroni in Palestine after his grandfather Aron-Josef Tschwerwinski, who was killed in the Ghetto Kishinau, and a follower of the Hasidic rabbi Jankele-Josef Twerski from Skwira (his brother took the surname Aharoni).

Samuel Aroni studied civil engineering at the University of Melbourne with a bachelor's degree in 1955. He stayed there and studied urban and regional planning until 1956. 1955–1963 he worked there as a lecturer .

In 1963, Aroni as a teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley , where in 1965, he the master -degree for civil engineering and mechanics received in 1966 with his dissertation Slender Prestressed Concrete Columns for Ph.D. received his doctorate . 1966–1967 he was Associate Professor at San Francisco State College and 1967–1970 Research Engineer at the American Cement Corporation in Riverside (California) .

In 1970 Aroni was appointed professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 1974–1975 and 1983–1985 he was Acting Dean there . In 1991 he retired and became Director for Special Academic Cooperative Projects, International Studies and Overseas Programs at UCLA.

Aroni published fundamental works on urban and regional planning, on materials science and construction mechanics. He translated from the Russian WW Bolotin's monograph Statistical Methods in Structural Mechanics (Holden Day, 1969). He advised the Advisory Committee to the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering . He participated in many international conferences. He was invited to the second World Congress of Engineers and Architects in Israel in 1970 , where he was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Technical Corporation Center (with re-election in 1973). 1972–1974 he headed a large international systems analysis group at the World Institute in Jerusalem for an Israeli housing project. 1976–1978 he was a member of the Committee on Socio-Economic Effects of Earthquake Prediction of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In 1983 he was elected to the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University of the Negev . He initiated and organized the Joint US - Romanian Seminar on Earthquakes and Energy in Bucharest in 1985.

In 1995 Aroni published a memory book about the Chisinau ghetto and his escape (International Studies and Overseas Programs ISOP, Los Angeles 1995, 156 pp.). He has been married to Malka Kornfeld since 1956 and has two daughters Miriam and Ruth.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Samuel Aroni: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria (accessed June 15, 2016).
2. ^ ^{A b} Samuel Aroni: Memories of the Holocaust: Kishinev (Chisinau) 1941–1944 . University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), International Institute, formerly International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP), January 1995, November 1995 (2nd ed.) (Accessed June 15, 2016).
3. ^ Report of the Commission of the Occupation Forces investigating the bribery of the Romanian guards in the Chisinau ghetto (Romanian, accessed on June 15, 2016).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Vitae Samuel Aroni (accessed June 15, 2016).
5. ^ Publications Samuel Aroni (accessed June 15, 2016).
6. ^ Samuel Aroni (accessed June 15, 2016).