Avram Hershko — biochemist with roots in the Russian Empire
Avram Hershko (born Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám, 31 December 1937, Karcag, Hungary) is an Israeli biochemist and Distinguished Professor at the Technion in Haifa. With Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose he discovered ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, and the three shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
"The family lived in Budapest from 1946 and emigrated to Israel in 1950, settling in Jerusalem."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Karcag (Kingdom of Hungary)
Born in Karcag, Hungary, he survived the Holocaust as a child with his mother and brother; the family lived in Budapest after the war and emigrated to Israel in 1950. No ancestor born or living in the Russian Empire or USSR has been documented; his father was held by Soviet forces as a forced labourer until 1946.
Born in 1937 to Hungarian Jewish schoolteachers in Karcag.
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Karcag (Kingdom of Hungary). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.