Robert Greenblatt

Robert "Bob" Greenblatt (May 14, 1938 – October 21, 2009) is best known as an early opponent of America's military involvement in Vietnam and was the founding co-chairman and national coordinator of The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. He is the first cousin, once removed, of Trump advisor Jason Greenblatt and Canadian religious leader and Holocaust educator Eli Rubenstein. Early life Greenblatt was born in Debrecen, Hungary, and was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Austria until his release with the end of the war. He moved to the United States with his parents Julius and Pessie in 1949. Education He studied at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, then attended Brooklyn College, then Yale, where he received his PhD in mathematics in 1963, at the age of 25, under American mathematician William Schumacher Massey (a remarkable feat for a child Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the U.S. after the war at 11 years of age, considering the average PhD is achieved at 33 years of age.) Activism