Dr. Boaz Gelernter, Holocaust Survivor, World War II Vet, Dies
Services were held on Sunday.
- Patricia A. Miller for Patch March 12th, 2018
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Dr. Boaz Gelernter of Elberon died peacefully in his home on March 09, 2018. He was 96. Dr. Gelernter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. … He was orphaned by the Holocaust. Dr. Gelernter served honorably in the US Army in Word War II. He became a United States citizen while fighting in the Pacific at Guadalcanal. He went on to obtain a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, master's degree from Rutgers University, and a PhD in Electrophysics from Brooklyn Polytechnic [now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering].
