Yehuda nir biography
Yehuda Nir, a Psychiatrist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 84.
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Yehuda Nir, 84
Growing up Jewish in pre-Hitler Poland with a series of nurses and nannies who sang to him in a Babel of native tongues, Yehuda Nir could read or speak seven languages by the time he was 10.
The one that helped save his life, though, he did not learn until he was 11, soon after his father was murdered — Latin, which allowed the blond-haired child not only to pass as a Roman Catholic, but even to serve as an altar boy.
“Within a week, I knew the catechism inside out,” Dr.
Nir wrote in a memoir, thinly disguised as fiction, that was published in these pages in 1995. “I can recite Pater Noster in Polish today, this very minute. . .
Yehuda nir biography
. I wouldn’t be here to write this if I didn’t know it.”
Dr. Nir, a frequent traveler to Israel whose house in Springs overlooking Gardiner’s Bay was “one of his favorite places on earth,” said his daughter, Sarah Maslin Nir, died on Saturday at home in Manhattan at the age of 84.
His long life was defined to an enormous extent by his