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About Esther Silverstein Blanc
Dr. Esther Miriam Blanc (nee Silverstein) was born August 3, 1913 in Goshen County, Wyoming to Romanian parents, Simon and Katie (Krantz) Silverstein, who had immigrated to the United States ca. 1901. In her early years, Blanc grew up on her parents' farm in Wyoming; however, the family relocated to Scotts Bluff, Mitchell County, Nebraska between 1920-1923, where Simon located a job as a tailor for gentleman's suits. Blanc graduated from the University of California at San Francisco's School of Nursing in 1934. From 1937-1938, she served in the International Brigade Medical Corps in Spain as a front-line nurse for the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War.
Returning to California, Blanc acquired a job as a nurse for the University of California's hospital in San Francisco. She married Richard Blanc in 1941 and acted as a US Army nurse during World War II. After the war, she received a Master's in English Literature from the University of Rochester. As a clinical nurse, she was once expelled from the California Nurses Organization for union organizing. They later honored her with an award.