Salomon, George, 1920-1981

George Salomon was born in Hamburg on April, 23 in 1920 as the first child of the historian Richard Georg Salomon and his wife Gertrud J. Horwitz. In 1937 he graduated from high school with his Abitur at the Johanneum Hamburg.

In 1938 the family immigrated to the U.S. where George studied at Swarthmore College from 1937 to 1940 and in 1938 he became co-founder of a fund for refugee students. From 1940 onwards, he created graphical works in New York's printing industry ( Druckgewerbe ) and in 1947 he became a graphic designer. Between 1957 and 1959 George worked for the N.Y.C. Transit Authority and designed the first diagram-card for the subway system of New York. From 1960 to 1962 he worked as a journalist for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and in 1966 he became a member of the Association of Jewish Community Relations Workers and of the LBI.

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