Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922-2008) was a Polish physician, Holocaust survivor, and resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Forced to flee Poland in 1968 amid rising antisemitism, she went on to join Doctors Without Borders and co-found Doctors of the World, taking part in humanitarian medical missions across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Irena Grudziska-Gross fled her native Poland in 1968, obtained her PhD at the Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a research scholar at Princeton University. She has written historical books on modern Europe (particularly intellectual history and literature), including The Scar of Revolution (1991), Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and Golden Harvest (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with Jan T. Gross.