Fred Blum

Fred Johannes Blum (1914 – 1990) was an American social scientist and the founder of The New Era Centre.

Blum was born 1914 in Mannheim, Germany to a liberal, professional Jewish family. In the 1930s he went to study social sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. By 1938 he could see no future in Hitler's Nazi Germany and in 1939 he left his family behind, emigrating to the United States to undertake a doctorate at the University of California and later becoming an American citizen. Many members of Blum's family, including his parents, were murdered in the Holocaust (his mother in the Auschwitz concentration camp). Provided by Wikipedia