Jewish Nobel Peace Prize Winners

(In enumerating Nobel Prize winners, we have followed the Nobel Foundation's practice of counting multiple-time recipients only once. The UNHCR and the ICRC, two of the twenty-seven distinct organizations receiving Nobel Peace Prizes, have been named as recipients twice and three times, respectively.) For references on the Jewish background of Ludwik Rajchman, see For the Good of Humanity: Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman, by Marta A. Balinska (Central European University Press, Budapest, 1995, pp. vii, 2-3). On Peter Benenson, see the interview by Madeleine Kingsley with his mother, Flora (née Benenson) Solomon, on p.24 of the 15 June 1984 edition of the Jewish Chronicle (London). Flora Solomon was the daughter of the Russian-Jewish financier Grigory Benenson and his wife (née Sophie Goldberg). Peter Benenson's father was Brigadier General Harold Solomon, who is described in the article as having come from "the upper echelons of English Jewish society." Bernard Lown, who is a co-inventor of the cardiac defibrillator, was born in Lithuania to Nisson and Bella (née Grossbard) Lown. Members of the Lown family were prominent in American Jewish communal affairs, especially in Maine and Massachusetts. On former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's half-Jewish background, see his essay in I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl, edited by Judea and Ruth Pearl (Jewish Lights, Woodstock, VT, 2004, pp. 229-230). Kouchner's paternal grandparents died in Auschwitz. For a reference on Arseny Roginsky, see the 19 December 2017 New Yorker article "How Arseny Roginsky Confronted the Politics of Memory in Russia," by Masha Gessen. Gessen describes Memorial as "the institution he had built starting in the late nineteen-nineties."