BOG 2024: Sieratzki Institute for Advances in Neuroscience Inaugurated
Dear TAU friend Harry Sieratzki continues a long family tradition of supporting young neuroscientists in Israel
Neuroscience is a deeply impactful field today as the more we know about the brain, the more we can do to treat and prevent the effects of neurological conditions and aging. To help advance these breakthroughs, the Sieratzki Institute for Advances in Neuroscience has been inaugurated at this year’s Board of Governors meeting. The Institute is supported by Dr. Jechil (Harry) Sieratzki, a dear and longtime friend of Tel Aviv University, as well as a medical doctor and brain researcher himself.
In a moving inauguration ceremony that filled the ANU Museum's lecture theatre, Dr. Sieratzki fondly commemorated his late parents Heinrich (Yehezkel) and Barbara (Batia) Sieratzki with this project and shared the amazing life story of his mother Barbara, herself a loyal supporter of TAU and education in Israel.
Barbara Sieratzki z"l was born in Krakow, Poland in 1926. She survived the Holocaust, and at one point was imprisoned with the famed poet and soldier Chana Senesh. After the war, she went on to study philology in Hungary. From there she moved to Germany, met her husband Heinrich, and together they built up a family business. When Barbara was 50, Heinrich tragically passed away, and she went on to live independently for 42 more years.
(Photos By: Yael Zur)
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