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Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by boxerab on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:18PM (#16667363)
Steinhaus, Ulam and many other mathematicians in the Lviv school were Jewish, and had to flee or go into hiding to survive the German occupation. Interesting that there is no mention of this in the article.
Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by osipov on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:42PM (#16667470)
Unfortunately today, Lviv remains hostile to Jews by celebrating[1] extreme nationalism. Something I experienced first hand due to my Jewish heritage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera#Jews

Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by bobthechef on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:27PM (#16668020)
> Lviv remains hostile to Jews

I'm not sure how that relates to the OP since the article is on a Polish website. "Remains hostile" seems to suggest it was hostile before WWII. Remember, Lviv today is largely Ukrainian (as was Bandera). Most Poles, Jew or gentile, were either expelled after or killed during the war.

Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by NotSammyHagar on Saturday March 24, 2018 @05:48PM (#16669166)
The wikipedia page on the city has a great description of the history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv
Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by justnoise on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:36PM (#16667446)
It's mentioned briefly through a single paragraph but not much beyond that.

"He lived through the war under the name Grzegorz Krochmalny and hid in an estate near Lviv and at a manor neat Nowy Sącz. He gave private lessons in exchange for firewood, oil and milk. In his spare time he played chess and worked on designing a solar clock. During the war he resorted to solving serious mathematical equations by post but continuing his research from before the war was out of the question."

Re:The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014) by bobthechef on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:31PM (#16668051)
> Interesting that there is no mention of this in the article.

Seems like you're suggesting malice. Frankly, I thought the article was poorly written and chaotic, omitting things I would have included.

Also, not just Jews were targeted by the Germans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Lw%C3%B3w_professo...