Janina Altman (Hebrew: יאנינה אלטמן) (née Hescheles; 2 January 1931 – 24 July 2022)[1] was a Polish-Israeli chemist, author and a Holocaust survivor.

[3][4] When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Hescheles' uncle, Marian Hemar, a brother of her father, was able to flee from Warsaw to Great Britain.

However, with help from the writer Michał Borwicz and the Polish resistance organization Żegota, she was able to escape from the Janowska concentration camp in October 1943.

In 1950, Hescheles emigrated to Israel, where she eventually earned a doctorate in chemistry at Technion (the Israeli Institute of Technology).

Hescheles (now known as Janina Altman) continued to work at Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science, and also at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.