Fleury, Eleonora Lilian (1867–1960), medical doctor, was
born in Manchester, England, the eldest
daughter of Charles Fleury, a Waterford surgeon of Huguenot stock. Losing her mother at
an early age, she appears to have been home-educated before registering as a medical
student at…...
Lewis, Helen (1916–2009), Holocaust survivor, dance teacher, choreographer and memoirist, was born Helena Katz on 22 June 1916 into a well-off Jewish family in Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian empire (Bohemia became part of the new state of Czechoslovakia in 1918). She was an only child…...