Ester Samuel-Cahn

Ester Samuel-Cahn
Born Ester Samuel
May 16, 1933
Oslo, Norway
Nationality Israel
Fields Statistics
Institutions Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Alma mater Columbia University

Ester Samuel-Cahn (born May 16, 1933; died November, 2015) was an Israeli statistician and educator. She was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Biography

Samuel-Cahn was born in Oslo, Norway. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, in 1942, her father, a rabbi, was warned that he would be arrested by the Germans.[2] He refused to leave in order to try to support his community.[3] In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz.[3] Later that year, the Nazis were going to arrest the other Jews in Oslo, however Samuel-Cahn's family were moved by members of the underground, Ingebjørg Sletten-Fosstvedt and Sigrid Helliesen Lund, to safety and later to a refugee camp in neutral Sweden.[2] In order to cross the border, Samuel-Cahn and the rest of her family had to hide in trucks used to transport potatoes.[4] In Stockholm, Samuel-Cahn's family found out that her father had been killed in Auschwitz.[2] In 1946, Samuel-Cahn, her mother and brothers moved to Mandatory Palestine (part of which later became Israel).[5]

Samuel-Cahn received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1961.[1] From 1993 to 1995, she was the president of the Israel Statistical Association.[6] In 1989 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7]

In 2004, Samuel-Cahn won the Israel Prize for her work in statistics.[8] In 2012, she spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Martyrs' Forest in Jerusalem Hills, commemorating Norwegian Jews who died in the Holocaust and remembering those who helped hide and protect Jews in Norway.[9]

She died in November, 2015.[10]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Ester Samuel-Cahn". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ester Samuel-Cahn - Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State - Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2008 - Yad Vashem". Yad Vashem. 2008. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  3. 1 2 Green, David B. (16 December 2014). "This Day in Jewish History / Norway chief rabbi who stayed with his flock dies in Auschwitz". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Samuel-Cahn, Ester; Samuel, Amos (2006). "Rabbi Isaak Samuel, הי"ד Rabbi of Norwegian Jewry" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Fendel, Hillel (30 April 2008). "Holocaust/Heroism Day Begins Tonight". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  6. ↑ Weissman, Ishay. "History of the ISA". Israel Statistical Association. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  7. ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-11-19.
  8. ↑ "Center members have been awarded distinguished prizes". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
  9. ↑ "Martyrs' Forest Memorial Ceremony for Norwegian Jews Who Perished in the Holocaust". Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael Jewish National Fund. November 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Aderet, Ofer (2015-11-26). "הפרופסורית שפתרה את "בעיית המזכירה"". Haaretz. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
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