Yesterday, Thursday, was Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK (UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Wikipedia lists 15 professional mathematicians as victims of the Holocaust including Georg Alexander Pick (Pick's Theorem) who died aged 82 and Felix Hausdorff, one of the founders of modern topology. And, of course, many future mathematicians who never made it.

 

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