5. Leonard Nimoy
Actor Leonard Nimoy was born on March 26th, 1931, in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of a Jewish immigrant couple from Iziaslav, Ukraine. They left their home in Iziaslav due to the pogroms, which are violent anti-Jewish protests.
His parents’ experiences as Ukrainian Jewish refugees influenced him during one of his most popular movie roles – Dr. Spock, a half-Vulcan, half-human doctor who was a fugitive minority.
The star spoke and read Yiddish his entire life until he died on February 27th, 2015, in the city of Bel Air, California.
…What do you think about Leonard Nimoy’s story?
