利奥·梅拉梅德(Leo Melamed)1932年出生于波兰的一个犹太家庭,作为双教师家庭的独生子,梅拉梅德的学习生涯却以坎坷开始。1939年,他刚刚进入小学没过多久,德国便发动了第二次世界大战,年幼的梅拉梅德幸运地在德军封锁全城前晚,和母亲乘最后一辆班车去与逃亡在外的父亲汇合。一家三口经过立陶宛的维尔诺和前苏联的海参崴,在日本敦贺乘船跨越太平洋辗转到达美国。这场逃亡前后近三年,直至梅拉梅德的父亲收到芝加哥犹太学校的邀请前往任教,全家才在当地安顿了下来。按照周围亲友的期待和他自 Leo Melamed was born in 1932 to a Jewish family in Poland. As the only child of a double-teacher family, Mellamed’s career began with a bumpy ride. It was not long before he entered elementary school in 1939 when Germany launched World War II. Young Melamed was fortunate enough to blockade the entire town of the city with the Germans and spend the last bus with his mother in exile Father confluence. A family of three passes through Vilnius, Lithuania, and Vladivostok, the former Soviet Union, in Japan to sail across the Pacific Ocean to reach the United States. Nearly three years before and after this runaway, the family settled in the area until Melamed’s father received an invitation from the Chicago Jewish School to teach. In accordance with the expectations of friends and relatives around him