Theodor Meron

Theodor Meron was born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, to a Jewish family, he was just nine years old when World War Two began. He survived ghettos, camps and the unimaginable atrocities of the Holocaust, but lost most of his family, as well as his home and many years of education and freedom and in 1945 immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He received his legal education at the Hebrew University (M.J.), Harvard Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.) and Cambridge University (Diploma in Public International Law). He immigrated to the United States in 1978 and is a citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom.