The scientist Oscar Sager
neurologist ( 1894-1981)
The scientist Oscar Sager was born on December 22, 1894, in Focsani, one of the five children of a humble family. Educated in the spirit of correctness, precision and respect, two of the five children became university professors and the third a famous engineer – the builder of the lovely central square in Ploiesti.
Oscar was a pupil at the primary school, and then at the Unirea College in Focsani. Medicine he studied in Bucharest. At the age of 27 he was given the diploma of a “doctor in medicine and surgery “”in the name of his Majesty, King Ferdinand I”. The diploma bears the signature of the dean of the Faculty- the scientist Victor Babes. Between 1924- 1925 he worked as an intern, and from 1925 to 1929 as an assistant professor at the Neurological Clinic in Bucharest.
Between 1931- 1937, together with Professor Dusser de Barenne, he describes the three thalamic syndromes related to the sensitivity of the human organism. At the age of 39 he was appointed associate professor at the Neurological Clinic in Bucharest, and at 44, he became a corresponding member of the Neurological Society in Paris and a founding member of the Society of Neurology in Romania. In spite of having the grade of a doctor-captain, between 1942-1944 he had to execute forced labor. In 1946 he was appointed chief neurologist physician at the Caritas Hospital and in 1948, Associate Professor of Experimental Neurology at the Medical Faculty of Bucharest. Beating all hindrances of the communist regime, in 1963 Oscar Sager was finally appointed full member of the Romanian Academy. In 1970 he was elected senator of the Romanian Academy. Oscar Sager passed away in 1981. (The data were provided by Prof. Jean Askenasy)
Lazar Filderman
Vice-President of the Focsani Jewish Community in 1939- 1940, in the eve of World War Two. He fought in World War I and was given a medal. He was very active in the life of the Community and cared for its prosperity. (His daughter, Livia Filderman, living in Bucharest provided his picture and biographical data to us).
Attorney-in-Law Jack Ianconescu
Born in the town Panciu. By the end of World War I, he moved to Focsani where he married and fathered two children, Bernel and Dorothea. A talented orator, a remarkable personality among the town’s intellectuals, with a rich cultural and Zionist activity. Over the course of several years he was an editor – together with Dr. Flitman - of the "Unirea" newspaper.
After World War Two he joined the "Bnei Brith" and the editorial board of the "Palatul de Justitie" (“Palace of Justice”) newspaper.
(His daughter, Dorothea Weissbuch- Ianconescu living in Bucharest provided his picture and biographical data to us).
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