Ernest Paul

(PHOTO SHOWN IS ERNEST AND LAURA PAUL) Ernest Paul was born in Czechoslovakia; served as a member of the Zionist underground in Budapest, Hungary during World War II; was twice captured and tortured by military police; was finally freed during a raid by the Budapest Underground; and fought in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. His wife Sara, of blessed memory, was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps where atrocities were committed against the Jewish people during the genocide known as the Holocaust (Shoah). Ernest supports the programs of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, and has established a scholarship endowment for the benefit of students with a demonstrated interest in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.