Ella Sachs Plotz

Ella Sachs Plotz (November 10, 1888 – April 13, 1922) was an American philanthropist, for whom the Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Investigation was named after. Early life Ella Sachs was born in New York City, the daughter of banker Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs. The extended Goldman–Sachs family was Jewish. Her father and maternal grandfather Marcus Goldman founded Goldman Sachs, an investment banking firm. Her eldest brother Paul J. Sachs was a professor of fine arts, and associate director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. Philanthropy and personal life Sachs was elected to the board of directors of the National Urban League in 1915. During World War I she was a canteen worker in France, Italy, and England with the YMCA. She was a trustee of Fisk University. Ella Sachs married physician and bacteriologist Henry (Harry) Plotz in 1920. Judge Benjamin Cardozo officiated at their wedding. She died in childbirth in 1922, aged 33 years, in Paris.