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Mordecai Paldiel
Jewish historian
Mordecai Paldiel (born Markus Wajsfeld, March 10, 1937)[1] is a lecturer at Stern College (Yeshiva University)[2] and Queens College in New York.
Early life and education
Paldiel was born into a Hasidic family of Szlomo Wajsfeld, a diamond trader originally from Miechów near Kraków, and Hinde (née Labin) from Uhnów (now Ukraine) as one of their five children before World War II.
Thanks to a Catholic Priest who was able to smuggle them across the border,[3] the family fled from Nazi occupied Belgium via France to Switzerland in 1940 when he was 3 years old.[1] Later after the war the family emigrated to New York.[4]
"When you have stories of people who acted contrary to that and said 'I'm going to save lives, even at risk to myself,' you should talk about these people too.
The good deeds should rub off on you too."[5]
He received a bachelor of arts from Hebrew University and