Ester Samuel-Cahn, Norwegian statistics educator. Certified elementary and high school teacher. Fellow Institute of Mathematics Statistics, American Statistical Association; member Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Israel Statistical Association (president 1993-1995).
Background
Samuel-Cahn was born in Oslo, Norway. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, in 1942, her father, a rabbi, was warned that he would be arrested by the Germans. In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz.
Education
Bachelor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1958. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1961.
Career
She was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He refused to leave in order to try to support his community. In order to cross the border, Samuel-Cahn and the rest of her family had to hide in trucks used to transport potatoes.
In Stockholm, Samuel-Cahn"s family found out that her father had been killed in Auschwitz.
Samuel-Cahn received her Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1961. From 1993 to 1995, she was the president of the Israel Statistical Association.
In 2012, she spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Martyrs" Forest in Jerusalem Hills, commemorating Norwegian Jews who died in the Holocaust and remembering those who helped hide and protect Jews in Norway. She died in November, 2015.
Achievements
Membership
Later that year, the Nazis were going to arrest the other Jews in Oslo, however Samuel-Cahn"s family were moved by members of the underground, Ingebjørg Sletten-Fosstvedt and Sigrid Helliesen Lund, to safety and later to a refugee camp in neutral Sweden.
Connections
Married Aron Cahn, July 14, 1970. Children: Amotz, Oded, Michal, Eitan.