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Dr. Henri Servin was born in Poland in 1926 and grew up in Liège, Belgium. He was smuggled into hiding by the Belgian resistance during the Holocaust and spent the war on farms near Liège, where he developed a love of nature and animals. After the war, Henri, his mother and his brother moved to Montréal, Canada, where he started a club for Jewish expats. He met his wife, Geneviève, at the club and she encouraged him to continue his studies. He earned his high school diploma and was admitted to UCLA, where he earned a Ph.D. in French literature. In 1967, he became a professor in the Department of French at the University of Arizona, where he deeply touched many students over his thirty-year tenure.