AN oak tree has been planted at a Leicester park to celebrate the life of a renowned jewish physicist who fled Nazi persecution prior to World War II. On Tuesday (January 25), an oak was planted at the city’s Western Park, to celebrate the life of Benjamin Abeles – the renowned physicist who arrived in England as a refugee from Prague on the Kinder-transport back in 1939. Mr Abeles, who was of Jewish origin, died in Leicester in 2020 at the age of 95. He had lived in the city since 2009. The tree was planted as part of a...
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