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How One Thing has Led to Another

How One Thing has Led to Another George Klein and Eva Klein Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institutet, S- l 04 0 1 Stockholm, Sweden, and Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel GEORGE KLEIN WRITES: Dawn This story starts on the 1 0th of January, 1945, when I emerged from a cellar on the outskirts of Budapest where I had been hiding, with false papers, during the last weeks of the German occupation. With a totally new feeling about the sunshine that was floating over the snow, the ruined houses, the dead and frozen soldiers, civilians, and horses, I suddenly realized, with a mixture of surprise, guilt, and delight, that I had survived in spite of an 80% chance that I would end my 19 years in the gas chambers or in a military slave labor camp. After a few quick walks in the newly liberated area of the still besieged capital, I decided that it was time to start my medical studies, already delayed by almost two years. During the first year after my graduation from middle school, it was impossible for a Jewish boy to enter medical school. After the German occupation nothing mattered except survival. We http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Immunology Annual Reviews

How One Thing has Led to Another

Klein, George; Klein, Eva
Annual Review of Immunology , Volume 7 (1) – Apr 1, 1989
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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1989 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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0732-0582
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1545-3278
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10.1146/annurev.iy.07.040189.000245
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George Klein and Eva Klein Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institutet, S- l 04 0 1 Stockholm, Sweden, and Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel GEORGE KLEIN WRITES: Dawn This story starts on the 1 0th of January, 1945, when I emerged from a cellar on the outskirts of Budapest where I had been hiding, with false papers, during the last weeks of the German occupation. With a totally new feeling about the sunshine that was floating over the snow, the ruined houses, the dead and frozen soldiers, civilians, and horses, I suddenly realized, with a mixture of surprise, guilt, and delight, that I had survived in spite of an 80% chance that I would end my 19 years in the gas chambers or in a military slave labor camp. After a few quick walks in the newly liberated area of the still besieged capital, I decided that it was time to start my medical studies, already delayed by almost two years. During the first year after my graduation from middle school, it was impossible for a Jewish boy to enter medical school. After the German occupation nothing mattered except survival. We

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Published: Apr 1, 1989

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