Albert Einstein was born in Germany to Jewish parents in 1879 and raised in a non-religious family.
But even though he didn't identify as Jewish in a religious sense he did identify his Jewish as his nationality.
This identity his immense popularity and his outspoken support on Jewish issues.
would eventually make him a target of the Nazi party in 1905 Einstein Rose to fame and what some call his miracle year?
publishing numerous physics papers including one that featured the now famous e equals Mc-squared.
That revolutionized the way we think about our universe in 1915 he published his theory of relativity and in 1921 he won the Nobel prize.
But his einsteins popularity was growing in the field of physics Anti-semitism was spreading around it and soon.
He became a target of the Nazi party his theories were denounced publicly by local anti-semitic [scientists] his work cast aside and labeled Jewish Physics and a Nazi-backed Pamphlet was published entitled 100 authors against Einstein.
His books were burned a bounty was put on his head and his face appeared on the cover of a magazine with the headline
not yet hanged.
He had no choice, but to flee Germany accepting a job at Princeton University in the United States
Albert Einstein was now a refugee.
While in the United States Einstein may be most famous for his role in the creation of Nuclear weapons and his eventual vocal opposition to them but he also fought for European refugees using his position to Lobby Eleanor Roosevelt to reach out to her husband about a 1939 Child Refugee bill that would have allowed
20,000 Jewish children under the age of 14 into the country.
The Bill ultimately died in committee due to outspoken anti-immigrant sentiments
Einstein's stay in the United States as a citizen until his death
But he never forgot the privilege of being able to successfully escape the horrors of Nazi Germany
