Over the years, many efforts have been made to improve communication across boundaries and cultures. More than 120 years ago, ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof created a new language — Esperanto — to foster better understanding and goodwill among the peoples of the world: The place where I was born and spent my childhood gave direction to all my future struggles, in Bia-lystok ... I was brought up as an idealist; I was taught that all people were brothers, while outside in the street at every step I felt that there were no people, only Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews and so on. This was always a great torment to my infant mind, although many people may smile at such an "anguish for the world" in a child.
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