Yehuda Nir, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yehuda Nir

American psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1930

Date of Death: 19-Jul-2014

Profession: psychiatrist, child psychiatrist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Yehuda Nir

  • Yehuda Nir (March 31, 1930 – July 19, 2014) was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood.
  • Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during World War II.
  • Nir's ordeal led him to a career as a psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and severely ill children.
  • He immigrated to the United States in 1959 to complete medical residencies in New York City and Philadelphia.
  • He served as the chief of child psychiatry of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 until 1986.Nir was born Juliusz Gruenfeld in Lwów, Poland, (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) on March 31, 1930.
  • He later changed his name to "Nir" after World War II since "Gruenfeld" has German origins.
  • Nir means 'plowed fields' in Hebrew.Nir released a memoir of his experience during the Holocaust, "The Lost Childhood", in 1989.
  • A second edition was reprinted by Scholastic Press in 2002.
  • The Lost Childhood is now used as part of the high school curriculum throughout the United States.
  • He also published four self-help books focusing on relationships, including "Not Quite Paradise: Making Marriage Work" and "Loving Men for All the Right Reasons."Yehuda Nir died at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on July 19, 2014, at the age of 84.
  • His funeral was held at Riverside Memorial Chapel on the Upper West Side, with burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
  • He was survived by his wife Bonnie Maslin and their children: daughter Sarah, a reporter for The New York Times; and son David, the political director of Daily Kos; and two sons from a previous marriage: private investor Daniel and fashion executive Aaron.

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