She was the wife of 1995 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Joseph Rotblat. As a literature student she married a Rotblat in 1937. After he graduated, he traveled to England with a fellowship grant in 1939 to continue his research with 1935 Nobel Prize in physics, Sir James Chadwick at University of Liverpool. Her husband returned to Poland, but left days before the Nazi invasion of Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. At first, she had to remain in Poland for financial reasons. In August of 1939, her husband received the Oliver Lodge Fellowship, doubling his salary, hence he sent for her, but she was recuperating from acute appendicitis with complications after her surgery. She attempted but failed to leave Poland as neighboring countries were being rapidly occupied by the Nazi Forces. According to his Royal Society biography, unknown to him until 1945, his wife and widowed mother-in-law died in Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lubelskie, Poland during 1941. Her last letter that her husband received dated December of 1940.
She was the wife of 1995 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Joseph Rotblat. As a literature student she married a Rotblat in 1937. After he graduated, he traveled to England with a fellowship grant in 1939 to continue his research with 1935 Nobel Prize in physics, Sir James Chadwick at University of Liverpool. Her husband returned to Poland, but left days before the Nazi invasion of Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. At first, she had to remain in Poland for financial reasons. In August of 1939, her husband received the Oliver Lodge Fellowship, doubling his salary, hence he sent for her, but she was recuperating from acute appendicitis with complications after her surgery. She attempted but failed to leave Poland as neighboring countries were being rapidly occupied by the Nazi Forces. According to his Royal Society biography, unknown to him until 1945, his wife and widowed mother-in-law died in Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lubelskie, Poland during 1941. Her last letter that her husband received dated December of 1940.
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