Oral History:Martin Bloch (2018)

Martin Bloch was born in Ivje, Poland in 1935. In 1941, he escaped the Ivje ghetto with his mother and brother, and joined the Bielski Artrad Jewish Partisan group. After surviving the Holocaust, he lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp until 1951, when his family left to come the United States. Arriving in New York in 1952, Bloch attended the City College of New York where he majored in electrical engineering and physics and was an intern at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After graduation, Bloch accepted a position at Bulova Watch Company where he designed timing on fuses, oscillators and crystal filters for guidance systems. Bloch left Bulova to found Frequency Electronics, Inc. in 1962 and as of 2020 is the Executive Chairman and Chief Scientist of Frequency Electronics, Inc. (FEI). Bloch is the recipient of the 1992 Sawyer Award of the IEEE UFFC Society.