Alan A. Brown

He founded the international honor society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE), while he was a student at City College of New York (CCNY) in 1955.

Brown arrived in the U.S. in 1949 at age 21, having survived the Nazi Holocaust as the sole survivor of his family (except for three scattered cousins), without money or knowledge of English.

In his personal testimony on YouTube, Brown states, "On June 6, 1944, D-Day with the German defeat rapidly approaching, our ghetto in Miskolc was liquidated."

As a monolingual German Nazi closely scrutinized the interactions, the Schwab quizzed Brown, next in line – "Age?"

Brown survived six Nazi labor camps - first in Hungary, and then in Austria, where the treatment was more brutal, and where he contracted typhus and tuberculosis, which eventually killed his father.

Brown was fortunate to encounter Frau Schreiber, who ran a general store on the outskirts of his final labor camp.

Schreiber risked her life, sneaking small amounts of food and medicine to Brown so that he and his father might overcome the typhus and tuberculosis that was endemic in the labor camp.

These diseases overcame his father, who died in his son's arms the day after the Russian soldiers liberated the labor camp.

Brown went on to a long academic career, he became a full professor with tenure in 1971, just before moving to the University of Windsor, Ontario and he retired in 1994.

Close to the time that Alan retired as a Professor at the University of Windsor in 1994, a young man came into his office.

As he said later in his 1995 speech in Windsor, "As a survivor, I … have to remember and tell others that democracy in the Weimar Republic did not prevent the rise of Hitler.

The document Alan found stated that Schreiber "expressed her disgust and outrage at the terrorist actions of the NSDAP/AO.