Galveston County Daily News, July 25, 2007 GALVESTON - Dr. Bernard Haber of Galveston passed away on July 23, 2007, after a long battle with diabetes.Bernard was the only child of Maria Giewerc and Michael Haber. He was born in Lodz, Poland on July 20, 1934.  Although Bernard and his mother survived the Holocaust, his father did not. After the war, Bernard and his mother moved to London, where Bernard and his Uncle Pinick sold skirts in Piccadilly Square. After graduating from an English boarding school, Bernard arrived in Montreal, Canada. He attended McGill University where he received his Phd in Neurochemistry in 1963. He then moved to the states, landing first in Illinois, then Los Angeles where he did research at The City of Hope. He came to Galveston in 1971 and there he remained until his death. For 28 years, Bernard was a researcher at UTMB as well as editor and chief of the Journal of Neuroscience Research until his retirement in 1999.